Marketing vs Economic - What's the difference?
marketing | economic |
Buying and selling in a market.
(uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; includes market research and advertising.
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Shopping, going to market.
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Pertaining to an economy.
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, title= Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value) ; economical.
Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
' Economical is preferred when referring to thrift or value for money.
As a verb marketing
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun marketing
is buying and selling in a market.As an adjective economic is
pertaining to an economy.marketing
English
(wikipedia marketing)Verb
(head)Noun
citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing ”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- [Wife to husband:] I'm going out to do my marketing – keep out of the kitchen, while I'm gone.
Derived terms
* affiliate marketing * ambush marketing * antimarketing * direct marketing * e-marketing * event marketing * influencer marketing * marketing collateral * marketing research * membership marketing * multi-level marketing * niche marketing * viral marketingeconomic
English
Alternative forms
* economick (archaic) * (archaic) * (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Usage notes
Modern usage prefers economic' when describing the economy of a region or country (and when referring to personal or family budgeting).' Economical is preferred when referring to thrift or value for money.
