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PUBLICIZING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The business of drawing public attention to goods and services
Synonyms:
advertising; publicizing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("publicizing" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "publicizing"):
hard sell (forceful and insistent advertising)
soft sell (suggestive or persuasive advertising)
circularisation; circularization (circulating printed notices as a means of advertising)
Derivation:
publicize (make public)
publicize (call attention to)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb publicize
