Thursday, April 21, 2016

TOUT

WORD: TOUT

MEANING:
1. To promote or praise energetically; publicize: "For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks" (Yanick Rice Lamb).
2. To solicit or importune: street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
3. Chiefly British To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.
4. advertised, pushed

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The film was touted to be the first multi-starrer in contemporary Telugu cinema.

PRONOUNCE:
tout - टाउट

LINK: TOUT

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