peddling

Definitions

The act of selling goods, typically by traveling from place to place.

The activity of promoting or spreading ideas, rumors, or information, often with a negative connotation.

The action of riding a bicycle.

Examples

The street vendor was caught peddling counterfeit watches to unsuspecting tourists.

He spent his afternoon peddling his political ideas to anyone who would listen in the town square.

Synonyms

vending hawking merchandising selling trafficking promoting pushing

Antonyms

buying purchasing acquiring procuring consuming suppressing withholding