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conquest
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As a noun, conquest means victory gained through combat. As a verb, it means compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor.
Meanings of conquest
11 meaningsnoun
Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
figurativelyAn act or instance of overcoming an obstacle.
That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
colloquialfigurativeA person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
video gamesA competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
The act of conquering
Similar: conquering, subjection, subjugationSuccess in mastering something difficult
“the conquest of space”
An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
Similar: seduction
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoletefeudal lawThe acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
verb
marketingTo compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor.
Older and rare meanings (1)
archaicTo conquer.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).