catalogue (AmE spelling usually catalog) /; AmE ; / noun, verb

■ noun [C]

BACK CATALOGUE

1 (Marketing )

a complete list of items that a company sells, often with pictures of the items and prices:

She ran up a huge bill with a mail-order catalogue.

The company sells home furnishings through/via an online catalogue.

Takings (= the money received) from its high-street stores and its catalogue business were 11% higher than last year.

For a free copy of the catalogue, send a stamped addressed envelope to the above address.

⇨ BROCHURE

a home shopping/mail-order/an online catalogue

◆ a catalogue business/company/retailer catalogue prices/shopping to look at/produce/send for/send out a catalogue

2 [usually sing.] = BACK CATALOGUE

3 (IT )

a website that has lists of other sites in groups according to their type or subject, and has links to them ⇨ SEARCH ENGINE

■ verb [+ obj]

to arrange a list of things in order in a catalogue; to record sth in a catalogue:

The website catalogues everything that the company makes.

• market share
• market test
• market value
• market weight
• mark-to-market
• markup
• marque
• mart
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs
• mass
• mass advertising
• mass customization
• mass marketing
• mass media
• mass merchant
• mass-produce
• master franchise
• mastermind
• masthead
• matched bargain
• material
• materiality
• material requirements planning
• materials buyer
• materials control