tout

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tout1 /taʊt/ verb

1 [transitiveT]PRAISE to praise something or someone in order to persuade people that they are important or worth a lot 赞扬；吹捧

his much touted musical

他那出备受推崇的音乐剧

be touted as something

Nell is being touted as the next big thing in Hollywood.

内尔被誉为好莱坞的明日之星。

2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] especially British EnglishBrEBBTPERSUADE to try to persuade people to buy goods or services you are offering 兜售，推销（商品或服务）

tout for business/custom British EnglishBrE (=look for customers) 拉生意/招徕顾客

Minicab drivers are not allowed to tout for business.

接受电话预订的出租车司机不得私自拉生意。

3. [intransitiveI, transitiveT] American EnglishAmEDGGDSH to give someone information about a horse in a race （向…）提供赛马情报

Examples from the Corpus

tout• Cooper had touted Aikman to Donahue when the player was in high school.• But it is not a core curriculum like that being touted by test-and-measure statehouse reformers.• By spring, the re-election campaign will be ready to respond, touting Clinton with television spots in selected cities.• Slick ads tout everything from beauty products to electronic gadgets.• About the most obscure thing touted is the fountain in Fountain Hills.• Pippin was hyped as a games machine before the company wised up and starting touting it as an Internet device.• Those touting mandatory uniforms point to the successes in Long Beach.• Chef Foley was one of the first to tout Midwestern cuisine.

be touted as something• Marijuana has been touted as a useful treatment for glaucoma.• The Rockies are touted as having guaranteed snow.• Other businesses can be touted as triumphs by other investment banks.

tout for business/custom• But a Eurotunnel spokeswoman dismissed the findings as' intended to allow hypnotherapists to tout for business.• The competition was intense and the shop managers would actually stand in the street touting for business.• The surveyor wrote to successful grant applicants touting for custom.• They have even given up their company cars and now tout for business in the firm's delivery van.

tout2 (also ticket tout) noun [countableC] British EnglishBrE

DLSELLsomeone who buys tickets for a concert, sports match etc and sells them at a higher price, usually on the street near a sports ground, theatre etc 票贩子，黄牛 SYN American English scalper

Examples from the Corpus

tout• Touts were selling tickets to the match for £50 or more.• The Government has vowed to outlaw the sale by touts of tickets outside grounds on the day of matches.• The outdoor proctor or tout sought business and acted as an agent for petition-drawers and proctors.• Promoters have their reasons for pricing this way; having done so, they should see that touts provide a useful service.• Persecuting the tout - and, if possible, prosecuting him as well - has become a sport in itself.• Organisers of the concert were worried there would be trouble from ticket touts.• Tonight, touts remove five times the original ticket cost from those who didn't make it to the box office.

From Longman Business Dictionary

touttout1 /taʊt/ verb

1tout for business/custom/trade especially British EnglishBrE to try to persuade people to buy goods or services you are offering

I’ve been on the phone all morning touting for business.

2[transitiveT] to praise something or someone in order to persuade people that they are worth accepting, using etc

be touted as something

She is being touted as the best candidate for the job.

touttout2 (also ticket tout) noun [countableC]

British EnglishBrE someone who buys tickets for a concert, sports match etc and sells them for more than the official priceSYN AmE scalper

Origin tout1

(1700-1800) tout “to look secretly, watch” ((14-19 centuries)), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English tutian

tout1 verbtout2 noun