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–noun

1.	market; trading center; trade center.

2.	a building, center, or exposition for the sale of goods by manufacturers and wholesalers to retail merchants.

3.	Archaic. a fair.

4.	Obsolete. bargain.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < MD mar(c)t market

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–noun Scot. and North England.

a cow or ox fattened for slaughter.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME < ScotGael; cf. MIr mart ox or cow slaughtered for meat, carcass, hence a live ox or cow

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n.

A trading center; a market.
A place where goods are sold; a store.
Archaic A fair.

[Middle English, probably from Middle Flemish, from Vulgar Latin *marcātus; see market.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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"market," 1436, from M.Du. marct, from L. mercatus "trade" (see market).

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mart
noun
an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up [syn: marketplace]

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Wal-mart Inc, AR Zip code(s): 72716

Mart, TX (city, FIPS 46824) Location: 31.54135 N, 96.83004 W
Population (1990): 2004 (949 housing units)
Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 76664

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

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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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Mart\, n. [Contr. fr. market.]

1. A market.

Where has commerce such a mart . . . as London ? --Cowper.