German

Noun

Marketing n ‎(genitive Marketings, no plural)

1. marketing (promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service)

Synonyms

• Vermarktung
• Absatzwesen (arch.)

English

Verb

marketing

1. present participle of market

Noun

marketing ‎(countable and uncountable, plural marketings)

1. Buying and selling in a market.
2. (uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; includes market research and advertising.
   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

     In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

3. (up to the 1920s, archaic) Shopping, going to market.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

     Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]

   • 1926, George Herriman, comic strip Us Husbands, June 12th, 1926 (reprinted in the back of Krazy & Ignatz, vol. 1922–1924, Fantagraphics, 2012, ISBN 978-1-60699-477-1, p. 223):

     [Wife to husband:] I'm going out to do my marketing – keep out of the kitchen, while I'm gone.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From American English marketing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.ke.tiŋ/

Noun

marketing m ‎(plural marketings)

1. marketing

See also

• commercialisation
• mercatique

Greek

Noun

marketing m

1. marketing

• αγοραία προώθηση ‎(agoraía proóthisi)
• αγοραλογία ‎(agoralogía)

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from English marketing.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒrkɛtiŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: mar‧ke‧ting

Noun

marketing ‎(plural marketingek)

1. marketing

Declension

Derived terms

• marketinges

(Compound words):

• marketingosztály

References

1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English marketing.

Noun

marketing m ‎(invariable)

1. marketing (commercial activities)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English marketing.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʁ.ke.t͡ʃĩ/

Noun

marketing m (usually uncountable, plural marketings)

1. marketing (communication and interaction with costumers)

   O setor de marketing está avaliando o público-alvo.‎

   The marketing department is analysing the target audience.

2. (informal) promotion (the act of promoting a product or service)

   Fiz um marketing da nossa banda.‎

   I put out some promotion for our band.

Synonyms

• (marketing): mercadologia (less common)
• (promotion): promoção

Derived terms

• marketing direto
• marqueteiro

Related terms

• mercado
• telemarketing

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from English marketing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎrketinɡ/
• Hyphenation: mar‧ke‧ting

Noun

màrketing m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ма̀ркетинг)

1. marketing

Declension

References

• “marketing” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English marketing.

Noun

marketing m ‎(plural marketings)

1. marketing