stickering

Meanings

1. 1noununcountable

   The activity or process of putting stickers on things, especially as a job or hobby.

   Grammar: Uncountable: talk about 'the stickering,' never 'a stickering' or 'stickering s.'

   Patterns

   • stickering of something
   • do the stickering
   • help with the stickering

   The children spent the morning stickering their notebooks with stars and animals.

   She handles the stickering of every package before it leaves the warehouse.

   Stickering the windows took longer than we expected because the labels kept tearing.

2. 2noununcountablebusiness

   The labels or stickers applied to a product, container, or surface considered as a group.

   Grammar: Also uncountable; it names the applied stickers collectively rather than one item.

   Patterns

   • the stickering on something
   • remove the stickering
   • damaged stickering

   The stickering on the bottles must show the ingredients and the expiry date.

   Buyers complained that the stickering on the crates was peeling off in the rain.

   They redesigned the stickering so customers could read the price at a glance.

3. 3noununcountablebusinessinformal

   In marketing, the practice of covering a surface with many small branded stickers to advertise something.

   Grammar: Used without an article when talking about the technique or campaign as a whole.

   Patterns

   • street stickering
   • a stickering campaign
   • do some stickering

   The band promoted its tour through street stickering around the city center.

   Their stickering campaign put the new logo on lampposts, benches, and bus stops.

   Some cities fine companies for stickering public property without permission.

Common combinations

street stickering

Street stickering is cheap, but it can annoy residents.

do the stickering

I will do the stickering if you pack the boxes.

stickering machine

The factory bought a stickering machine to label jars faster.

stickering campaign

Their stickering campaign covered the whole campus in red logos.

the stickering on something

The stickering on the old suitcase was faded and torn.

Synonyms and how they differ

labeling

Labeling is the more general and formal word for attaching any kind of label, while stickering specifically suggests stickers that people press on by hand.

tagging

Tagging often means attaching small tags or, informally, spraying graffiti, so it fits less well when the items are sticky labels.

Word family

sticker noun

A small piece of paper or plastic with glue on the back that you press onto a surface.

sticker verb

To put a sticker on something; less common than the noun but used in business writing.

stickered adjective

Having stickers attached, as in 'a stickered guitar case.'

Commonly confused: stickering or sticking?

Practice

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