MARKETINGS
Noun
marketings
plural of marketing
Source: Wiktionary
MARKETING
Mar"ket*ing, n.
1. The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.
2. Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
MARKET
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