In the dynamic field of marketing, new terms, concepts, and techniques are emerging everyday. Keeping track of them is very difficult, if not impossible. This dictionary serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding marketing, its lexicon, and their usage. Marketing is discussed in all its dimensions, going beyond just the meaning of words to their etymology, nuances, and current significance. This invaluable reference tool covers more than 5,000 terms, concepts, theories, methods and techniques from the fields of: general marketing; consumer behavior; advertising; sales promotion; sales management; retailing; international marketing; E-marketing; and services marketing.