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advertising
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ædv??ta?z??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ædv??ta?z??/
- Hyphenation: ad?ver?tis?ing
Noun
advertising (usually uncountable, plural advertisings)
- Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
- 1899, Walter Besant, The Pen and the Book
- Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
- 1899, Walter Besant, The Pen and the Book
- The industry or profession made up of such communications.
Derived terms
- advertising agency
- dark advertising
- online advertising
- two-price advertising
Related terms
- advertisement
Translations
Verb
advertising
- present participle of advertise
Further reading
- advertising on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- gainstrived
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huckster
English
Alternative forms
- huxter (dated)
Etymology
From Middle English hukster, from Middle Dutch hokester, itself from hoeken (“to peddle”); compare hawkster.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h?kst?/
Noun
huckster (plural hucksters)
- A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- drive those china hucksters from the doors
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
- One who deceptively sells fraudulent products.
- Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
- A mean, deceptive person.
Translations
See also
- pitchman
- spruiker
Further reading
- Huckster in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
huckster (third-person singular simple present hucksters, present participle huckstering, simple past and past participle huckstered)
- (intransitive) To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
- (transitive) To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
- (transitive) To promote or sell goods in an aggressive, showy manner.
Derived terms
- hucksterism
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- Kutchers
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