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Advertising vs Huckster - What's the difference?

advertising | huckster |

As verbs the difference between advertising and huckster

is that advertising is while huckster is to haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.

As nouns the difference between advertising and huckster

is that advertising is communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services while huckster is a peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street.

advertising

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (wikipedia advertising)
  • Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
  • * Sir Walter Besant
  • Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about

    Derived terms

    * two-price advertising

    huckster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall or in the street.
  • (Jonathan Swift)
  • Somebody who manner.
  • One who s.
  • Somebody who writes s for radio or television.
  • A person.
  • * Bishop Hall
  • Instead of turning to me and keeping to the works of charity and justice, he is a mere heathen huckster .
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

    See also

    * pitchman * spruiker

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To haggle, to wrangle, or to bargain.
  • To sell or offer goods from place to place, to peddle.
  • To promote/sell goods in an aggressive/ showy manner.
  • Derived terms

    * hucksterism

    References

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