TELEMARKETING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telemarketing mean? 

• TELEMARKETING (noun)
  The noun TELEMARKETING has 1 sense:

1. the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales

  Familiarity information: TELEMARKETING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEMARKETING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

telecommerce; telemarketing; teleselling

Hypernyms ("telemarketing" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "telemarketing"):

telephone order (receiving orders via telephone)