market research 
noun [mass noun]
The action or activity of gathering information about consumers' needs and preferences: the company have just completed market research on a new type of organic toothpaste [as modifier]: a market-research company...
- But all they can do is offer advice and information or conduct market research.
- It specialises in brand development, market research and marketing strategy.
- This could be in monitoring changing industry standards, or in sharing the cost of export market research.
Derivatives
market researcher
/ noun ...- The heart of qualitative research is still the interview: A market researcher talking to consumers in a group of 12, in smaller groups of two or three, or even one-on-one.
- Tech valuations soared to 55 times trailing earnings through Dec. 7, according to Leuthold Group, a market researcher in Minneapolis.
- The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based market researcher surveyed 40 managers at e-commerce companies.
- put the flags (or flag) out
- put the frighteners on
- put the hard word on
- put their (or our or your) heads together
- put the lid (or the tin lid) on it
- put the make on
- put the mockers on
- put the question
- put the screws on
- put the skids under
- put the squeeze on
- put the tin lid on
- put-through
- puttied
- puttin'-aff
- putting cleek
- putting club
- putting green
- putting hole
- putting iron
- putting-off
- putting on
- putting stone
- Puttnam, Sir David
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