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merchandising

/ˈmɜːtʃəndaɪzɪŋ/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

The licensed exploitation of a character, personality, or brand across a range of consumer products.

Studios earn far more from character merchandising than from the films that spawn the characters.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Business noun

The planning and presentation of products to maximise their sale at the point of purchase.

Sharper in-store merchandising at eye level lifted impulse sales of the confectionery line.

Topic: Marketing in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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More law words: Intellectual property