0 given or done by people talking about something or telling people about something: --
word-of-mouth publicity
We get most of our work through word-of-mouth recommendations.
1 by someone telling you: --
Students discovered the center by word of mouth.
2 the process of telling people you know about a particular product or service, usually because you think it is good and want to encourage them to try it: --
word-of-mouth advertising/recommendation
by/through word of mouth We get most of our clients by word of mouth.
They were also very free with their recordings, releasing songs free onto the internet and via word-of-mouth giveaways.
The demand is generated purely on a word-of-mouth basis.
I suspect that in many cases there would also have been word-of-mouth knowledge that anyone with dependent children would be ineligible to come.
I am sure that many of them grow from small beginnings by operating locally and enjoying personal word-of-mouth recommendations.
These matters nearly always depend upon word-of-mouth contact.
Many of the settlements under the present voluntary system are word-of-mouth settlements and are honoured as of old in industry.
We hope that word-of-mouth recommendations from those who have been on the schemes will increasingly encourage others to participate.
I am not speaking of word-of-mouth declarations, but of documents and reports.
