Mongery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mongery is a noun meaning The process of selling something of a specific type; the business of a monger.
Meaning
The process of selling something of a specific type; the business of a monger.
More Meanings
- The process of promoting or spreading something undesirable.
- That which is sold by a monger.
- The building where a monger conducts business.
Example Sentences
In [Demers88, Demers89) three epidemic communication methods are specified: direct mail, rumor mongery, and anti-entropy.
Such “image-mongery” only leads to “a lack of clarity about the role of imaginability” and about “the extent to which it insures that a sentence makes sense.”
The licentiousness of paganism outside of the immorality of the flesh was profit mongery and its twin Sister, interest, or as it was then called, usury and slavery.
For you have the whole Borough, with all its love-makings and scandal-mongeries, contentions and contentments, as in miniature, and could cover it all with your hat.
Word Forms
- mongeries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mongering, profitmongering, merchantry, merchandise, merchandising, broking.
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