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Record 1 1994-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
DEF

Advertising or publicity that exploits and profits from public interest in ecology and pollution control.

CONT

Environmentalist groups still abound, the advertising industry is still cashing in on the bandwagon by presenting companies and products as ecology-conscious (eco-pornography is the word that has been coined for such practices) and politicians still pay plenty of lip service to the issue.

OBS

Eco- is a prefix meaning: of the ecology, esp. relating to pollution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Néologie et emprunts
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général

Spanish

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