PUBLICIZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does publicizing mean? 

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

1. the business of drawing public attention to goods and services

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLICIZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The business of drawing public attention to goods and services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

advertising; publicizing

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)