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| agribusiness |
large-scale industrial agriculture and related activities such as food-processing, equipment manufacture, and marketing. |
| chain store |
one of a group of retail stores that are under the same ownership or central management system and that follow a uniform marketing policy. |
| couture |
the business of designing, making, and marketing clothing, esp. dresses. [1/2 definitions] |
| couturier |
someone in the business of designing, making, and marketing fashionable clothing. |
| distribution |
the marketing and transporting of goods to firms. [1/6 definitions] |
| Euratom |
the European Atomic Energy Community, comprised of six nations to coordinate the development and marketing of their nuclear resources. |
| investment bank |
a financial institution in which the underwriting and marketing of security issues is the chief business. |
| motivational research |
in advertising and marketing, the systematic assessment of consumer attitudes toward products and services. |
| pipeline |
a long, usu. capacious pipe for moving water, oil, gas, or the like, usu. from the point of production to a point of use or marketing. [1/3 definitions] |
| premarketing |
combined form of marketing. |
| psychographics |
(used with a sing. verb) in marketing and advertising, the study of consumers' opinions, values, attitudes, and the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| tie-in |
of, pertaining to, or denoting the marketing or sale of two or more products together. [1/3 definitions] |
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