telemarketing

[ tel-uh-mahr-ki-ting ]

noun

1. selling or advertising by telephone.

telemarketing

/ ˈtɛlɪˌmɑːkɪtɪŋ /

noun

1. another name for telesales

Derived Forms

• ˈteleˌmarketer, noun

Other Words From

• tel·e·mar·ket·er noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of telemarketing¹

tele- ¹ + marketing

Word History and Origins

Origin of telemarketing¹

C20: short for tele ( phone ) marketing

Example Sentences

There’s also Scam Shield Premium, which lets you send telemarketing and political calls directly to voicemail.

From Popular-Science

That year, the Federal Trade Commission made pre-recorded telemarketing calls illegal.

From Popular-Science

I’m thinking about this as The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City films while star Jen Shah is charged with defrauding elderly people in a telemarketing scam.

From The Daily Beast

The ante will be upped next season as well, as Shah was arrested while filming Season 2 after being accused of taking part in a fraudulent telemarketing scheme.

From Time

In passing the law, Congress was targeting “a unique type of telemarketing equipment that risks dialing emergency lines randomly or tying up all the sequentially numbered lines at a single entity,” such as a business, Sotomayor wrote.

From Washington Post

Infocision Management, a conservative telemarketing firm, was paid more than $10 million during the heated primary season alone.

From The Daily Beast