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Market

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Noun

1. market, market place, marketplace

the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

Example Sentences:
'without competition there would be no market'
'they were driven from the marketplace'

2. market

the customers for a particular product or service

Example Sentences:
'before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it'

3. food market, grocery, grocery store, market

a marketplace where groceries are sold

Example Sentences:
'the grocery store included a meat market'

4. market, securities industry

the securities markets in the aggregate

Example Sentences:
'the market always frustrates the small investor'

5. market, market place, marketplace, mart

an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

Verb

6. market

engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of

Example Sentences:
'The company is marketing its new line of beauty products'

7. market

buy household supplies

Example Sentences:
'We go marketing every Saturday'

8. market

deal in a market

9. commercialise, commercialize, market

make commercial

Example Sentences:
'Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Market

see synonyms of market
noun
1. 
a. 
an event or occasion, usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise
b. 
(as modifier)
market day
2. 
a place, such as an open space in a town, at which a market is held
3. 
a shop that sells a particular merchandise
an antique market
4.  the market
5. 
the trading or selling opportunities provided by a particular group of people
the foreign market
6. 
demand for a particular product or commodity
there is no market for furs here
7.  stock market
8.  market price, market value
9.  at market
10.  be in the market for
11.  on the market
12.  play the market
13.  buyer's market
14.  seller's market
verb -kets, -keting or -keted
15. (transitive)
to offer or produce for sale
16. (intransitive)
to buy or deal in a market

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Market

see synonyms of market
noun
1. 
a. 
a gathering of people for buying and selling things, esp. provisions or livestock
b. 
the people gathered
c. 
the time of such a gathering
2. 
an open space or a building where goods are shown for sale, usually with stalls or booths for the various dealers
3. 
a store or shop for the sale of provisions
a meat market
4. 
a region in which goods can be bought and sold
the Asian market
5. 
a. 
buying and selling; trade in goods, stocks, etc.
an active market
b. 
trade in a specified commodity
the wheat market
c. 
a place where such trade is carried on
d. 
the group of people associated in such trade
6. 
stock market
7. 
opportunity to sell, or demand (for goods or services)
a good market for new products
8. 
opportunity to buy, or supply (of goods or services)
reduced labor market
9. 
a. 
market price
b. 
market value
verb transitive
10. 
to send or take to market
11. 
to offer for sale
12. 
to sell
verb intransitive
13. 
to deal in a market; buy or sell
14. 
to buy provisions for the home

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Market

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n.
1.
a. A public gathering held for buying and selling goods or services: a weekly flower market.
b. An open space or a building where goods or services are offered for sale by multiple sellers: bought the chair at the downtown antiques market.
c. A store or shop that sells agricultural produce: bought vegetables from the corner market.
2.
a. A system of exchange in which prices are determined by the interaction of multiple, competing buyers and sellers: an electronic market for trading pollution credits.
b. A similar system in which information or ideas are evaluated by multiple competing interests.
3.
a. The buyers and sellers for a particular good or service or within a particular region: recent college graduates entering the US labor market.
b. The business transacted between such sellers and buyers: a slump in the housing market.
c. The price of a particular good or service as determined by supply and demand: The gold market climbed for the fifth straight day.
d. The demand for a particular commodity: a big market for denim; a growth market.
4. A standing commitment to buy and sell a given security at stated prices: a brokerage that made a market in the company's stock.
5. A subdivision of a population considered as consumers: targeting the teen market; a new product for the West Coast market.
6. The market price: executed the sale at market.
v. mar·ket·ed, mar·ket·ing, mar·kets
v.tr.
1. To offer for sale: merchants marketing their wares in the souk.
2. To try to make (a product or service) appealing to particular groups of consumers; promote by marketing.
v.intr.
1. To deal in a market; engage in buying or selling.
2. To buy household supplies: We marketed for a special Sunday dinner.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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