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MARKET
market, marketplace, market place
(noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; “without competition there would be no market”; “they were driven from the marketplace”
marketplace, market place, mart, market
(noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
market, securities industry
(noun) the securities markets in the aggregate; “the market always frustrates the small investor”
market
(noun) the customers for a particular product or service; “before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it”
commercialize, commercialise, market
(verb) make commercial; “Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life”
market
(verb) engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; “The company is marketing its new line of beauty products”
market
(verb) deal in a market
market
(verb) buy household supplies; “We go marketing every Saturday”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
market (plural markets)
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
A grocery store
A group of potential customers for one's product.
A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
(obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
Synonyms
• bazaar
• fair
• mart
• arcade
Verb
market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)
(transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
(transitive) To sell
(intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Source: Wiktionary
Mar"ket, n. Etym: [Akin to D. markt, OHG. markat, merkat, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place, fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain, acquire: cf. F. marché. See Merit, and cf. Merchant, Mart.]
1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week. He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak. Three women and a goose make a market. Old Saying.
2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold. There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool. John v. 2.
3. An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods. There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market. J. S. Mill.
4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed Shak.
6. (Eng. Law)
Definition: The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like. Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.] Chaucer.
– Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] Shak.
– Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held. Shak.
– Market garden, a garden in which vegetables are raised for market.
– Market gardening, the raising of vegetables for market.
– Market place, an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held.
– Market town, a town that has the privilege of a stated public market.
Mar"ket, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Marketing.]
Definition: To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Mar"ket, v. t.
Definition: To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops. Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth. Southey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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