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  • verb intransitive To engage in telemarketing (unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers).

Etymologies

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tele- +‎ market

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Examples

  • I was a direct salesman and he was hired to telemarket leads, places for me to go with live prospects.

    Gay Prejudice, Tolerance and Sundry marshallpayne1 2010

  • So I ate my way through the vending machines, drank coffee, read Vanity Fair while pretending to telemarket, and watched time not fly.

    candy bars, selling cars and satan MaryAnne Kolton 2011

  • Companies can't telemarket to citizens on the list anymore, but politicians can.

    Privacy 2009

  • Hi -- I would like to commend the courage and patriotism of several of your citizens, the three dozen employees of Americall who, when asked to telemarket and read a script of blatant and out-of-bounds lies to recipients, refused, and left their jobs, without pay, as a matter of principle.

    Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama 2009

  • In 1994, in a settlement with the FTC, he agreed not to telemarket movie posters as investments.

    Even A Kid Could Do It 2008

  • Why couldn't they have simply made it against the law to telemarket and make autodialers illegal.

    Can’t stand telemarketers? The ‘Do Not Call’ registry is ready | Sync Blog 2008

  • I have my availability set so that I can telemarket in the morning and do Target in the afternoons and evenings.

    Read It! j-ku 2007

  • I do have 4 hrs free on weekdays that I telemarket.

    Read It! j-ku 2007

  • I went to work yesterday at 9am to telemarket as I usually do on M, W, and F.

    Read It! j-ku 2007

  • You know, there are 110 million Americans on the "Do Not Call" list, which means that companies can't call you to telemarket -- can't call you during your dinner time to do that.

    CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2005 2005

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