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PEDDLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does peddling mean?
• PEDDLING (noun)
The noun PEDDLING has 1 sense:
1. the act of selling goods for a living
Familiarity information: PEDDLING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of selling goods for a living
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
hawking; peddling; vending; vendition
Hypernyms ("peddling" is a kind of...):
marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)
Derivation:
peddle (sell or offer for sale from place to place)
Context examples
It was not, and so, being prevented from peddling it, he asked for the return of the poem.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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