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mar·ket       (mär'kĭt)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A public gathering held for buying and selling merchandise. A place where goods are offered for sale. A store or shop that sells a particular type of merchandise: a vegetable market. The business of buying and selling a specified commodity: the soybean market. A market price. A geographic region considered as a place for sales: grain for the foreign market; the West Coast market. A subdivision of a population considered as buyers: cosmetics for the upscale market. An exchange for buying and selling stocks or commodities: securities sold on the New York market. The entire enterprise of buying and selling commodities and securities: The market has been slow recently. The opportunity to buy or sell; extent of demand for merchandise: a big market for gourmet foods. An exchange for buying and selling stocks or commodities: securities sold on the New York market. The entire enterprise of buying and selling commodities and securities: The market has been slow recently. v.   mar·ket·ed, mar·ket·ing, mar·kets v.   tr. To offer for sale. To sell. v.   intr. To deal in a market. To buy household supplies: We marketed for a special Sunday dinner. [Middle English, from Old North French, from Vulgar Latin *marcātus, from Latin mercātus, from past participle of mercārī, to buy, from merx, merc-, merchandise.]

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market
noun
1.	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"
2.	the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
3.	a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market" [syn: grocery store]
4.	the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor"
5.	an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up [syn: marketplace]
verb
1.	engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
2.	buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday"
3.	deal in a market
4.	make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life" [syn: commercialize]

American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This

market

see corner the market; drug on the market; flea market; in the market for; on the market; play the market; price out of the market.

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Market

1. Typically refers to the equity market where stocks are traded, but can also refer to the bond, options, or commodity market.

2. People with the desire and ability to buy a specific product.

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"The market was down today'' means the value of the stock market dropped.

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See also: AMEX, Fast Market, Nasdaq, NYSE, TSE

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: mar·ket
Function: noun
1 : the rate or price at which a security or commodity is currently selling : MARKET PRICE
2 a : a geographical area of demand for commodities or services markets> b : a formal organized system enabling the transaction of business between buyers and sellers of commodities market> —see also STOCK MARKET c : a specified category of potential buyers market>
3 a : the course of commercial activity by which the exchange of commodities is accomplished market is quiet> b : an opportunity for selling markets> c : the available supply of or potential demand for specified goods or services market> market for durable goods> d : the area of economic activity in which buyers and sellers come together and the forces of supply and demand affect prices market forces and behavior>

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New Market, AL (CDP, FIPS 54312) Location: 34.90946 N, 86.42512 W
Population (1990): 1094 (429 housing units)
Area: 18.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 35761

New Market, IA (city, FIPS 56370) Location: 40.73243 N, 94.90003 W
Population (1990): 454 (240 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51646

New Market, TN (town, FIPS 52940) Location: 36.09888 N, 83.55243 W
Population (1990): 1086 (412 housing units)
Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 37820

New Market, VA (town, FIPS 55848) Location: 38.64763 N, 78.67485 W
Population (1990): 1435 (694 housing units)
Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 22844

New Market, IN (town, FIPS 53262) Location: 39.95191 N, 86.92213 W
Population (1990): 614 (251 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

New Market, MD (town, FIPS 55650) Location: 39.38407 N, 77.27439 W
Population (1990): 328 (131 housing units)
Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

New Market, MN (city, FIPS 45736) Location: 44.57210 N, 93.34966 W
Population (1990): 227 (88 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Wool Market, MS (CDP, FIPS 81200) Location: 30.46753 N, 88.99570 W
Population (1990): 1166 (472 housing units)
Area: 11.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

East New Market, MD (town, FIPS 24450) Location: 38.59910 N, 75.92387 W
Population (1990): 153 (71 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 21631

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Market

Mar"ket\, n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. mark[=a]t, merk[=a]t, 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. march['e]. 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) 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.

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Market

Mar"ket\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Marketing.] To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

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Market

Mar"ket\, v. t. 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.