mar⋅ket
[mahr-kit] 
| 1. | an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market. |
| 2. | a store for the sale of food: a meat market. |
| 3. | a meeting of people for selling and buying. |
| 4. | the assemblage of people at such a meeting. |
| 5. | trade or traffic, esp. as regards a particular commodity: the market in cotton. |
| 6. | a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity: the cotton market. |
| 7. | the field of trade or business: the best shoes in the market. |
| 8. | demand for a commodity: an unprecedented market for leather. |
| 9. | a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services: the health-food market. |
| 10. | a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used: the foreign market; the New England market. |
| 11. | current price or value: a rising market for shoes. |
| 12. | stock market. |
| 13. | to buy or sell in a market; deal. |
| 14. | to buy food and provisions for the home. |
| 15. | to carry or send to market for disposal: to market produce every week. |
| 16. | to dispose of in a market; sell. |
| 17. | at the market, at the prevailing price in the open market. |
| 18. | in the market for, ready to buy; interested in buying: I'm in the market for a new car. |
| 19. | on the market, for sale; available: Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week. |
1100–1150; ME, late OE < VL *marcātus, L mercātus trading, traffic, market
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| mar·ket
(mär'kĭt) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. tr.
[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
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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] |
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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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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
3 a : the course of commercial activity by which the exchange of commodities is accomplished
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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.Cite This Source
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.Cite This Source
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.Cite This Source
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