peddling
Selling door-to-door
Peddling is selling goods, especially by going from place to place: street vendors peddling their wares.
The word often carries a disreputable tinge—you peddle drugs, influence, or lies.
Someone peddling an idea is pushing it aggressively, usually with skepticism implied about its worth: peddling conspiracy theories on social media.
One who sells goods
- hawkingSport using trained raptors
- pitchingDelivering toward the plate
- salesmanshipArt of persuading buyers
- bargainingNegotiating mutually acceptable terms
touting · promotion · transaction · deal · merchandise · wares · goods · commerce
Prohibited trade goods
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- dealingConducting business transactions
- black-marketIllicit trading network
bootlegging · fencing · underground · drugs · narcotics · counterfeit · illegal · racket
Advocating to decision-makers
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
- spinRapid rotation around axis
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
persuasion · manipulation · agenda · ideology · falsehoods · conspiracy · promotion · spreading
vendor
One who sells goods
- hawkingSport using trained raptors
- pitchingDelivering toward the plate
- salesmanshipArt of persuading buyers
bargaining · touting · promotion · transaction · deal · merchandise · wares · goods · commerce · trade
contraband
Prohibited trade goods
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- dealingConducting business transactions
black-market · bootlegging · fencing · underground · drugs · narcotics · counterfeit · illegal · racket · runner
lobbying
Advocating to decision-makers
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
- spinRapid rotation around axis
rhetoric · persuasion · manipulation · agenda · ideology · falsehoods · conspiracy · promotion · spreading · disseminating
cycling
Riding on two wheels
delivery · courier · rickshaw · tricycle · cart · wheels · traveling · route
- door-to-door salescanvassing, soliciting, solicitation, door knocking, direct sales
- street sellingstreet vendor, pushcart, hawker, food cart, market stall
- historical tradebarter, Silk Road, bartering, spice trade, barter system
- informal workgig work, side hustle, odd jobs, moonlighting, day labor
- solicitationsrequest, plea, entreaty, appeal, solicitations
- Depression survivalbread lines, soup kitchens, Hoovervilles, making do, scrimping
peddlingbuying
Obtaining through payment
purchasing · acquiring · procuring · sourcing · shopping
peddlingsuppressing
Forcibly restraining or inhibiting
withholding · concealing · hoarding · censoring · burying
- influence peddlingSelling political access
expedition, impede, peddler, expedite, peddle, impediment, expeditious, impeding, impeded