marketing

1. Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair).Examples: "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 […]"; "[Wife to husband:] I'm going out to do my marketing – keep out of the kitchen, while I'm gone."; "We did everything from laundry to house cleaning, washing dishes to cooking, and even marketing. Since I was gifted with the skills to cook, I volunteered to help out in the kitchen and do the marketing."Philippinesarchaiccountableuncountable

2. Buying and/or selling in a market (street market or market fair).Examples: "Marketing was a time-consuming task for truck farming families, as the round trip could take most of the day."countabledateduncountable

3. (uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising.Examples: "a bachelor's degree in marketing"; "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."uncountable