shopping at a market; "does the weekly marketing at the supermarket"
the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service; "most companies have a manager in charge of marketing"
(bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit; "if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump"
close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"
a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line
a safe place; "He ran to safety"
the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions; "insure the safety of the children"; "the reciprocal of safety is risk"
an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility"
making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"
a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"