peddleverb [ T ]
uk/ˈped.əl/us/ˈped.əl/mainly disapprovingto sell things, especially by taking them to different places:
These products are generally peddled (from) door to door.
He travels around, peddling his wares.
If you peddle stories or information, you spread them by telling different people:
The organization has peddled the myth that they are supporting the local population.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- package
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- realize
- serve
- shift
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
- upsell
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