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mar⋅ket

  [mahr-kit]
Use in the market for in a Sentence
–noun
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.
–verb (used without object)
13. to buy or sell in a market; deal.
14. to buy food and provisions for the home.
–verb (used with object)
15. to carry or send to market for disposal: to market produce every week.
16. to dispose of in a market; sell.
—Idioms
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.
Origin:
1100–1150; ME, late OE < VL *marcātus, L mercātus trading, traffic, market

Related forms:
mar⋅ket⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
16. vend, merchandise, peddle.
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Word Origin & History

market 
c.1154, "a meeting at a fixed time for buying and selling livestock and provisions," from O.N.Fr. market (O.Fr. marchiet, Fr. marché), from L. mercatus "trading, trade, market" (cf. It. mercato, Sp. mercado), from pp. of mercari "to trade, deal in, buy," from merx (gen. mercis) "wares, merchandise," from Italic root *merk-, possibly from Etruscan, referring to various aspects of economics. Meaning "public building or space where markets are held" first attested c.1250. Sense of "sales, as controlled by supply and demand" is from 1689. The verb is 1635, from the noun. Market value (1691) first attested in writings of John Locke.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

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>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Idioms & Phrases

in the market for

Wanting to possess, eager to have, seeking. For example, The crowd was in the market for more entertainment, or I'm sure he's in the market for another fast car. [Early 1900s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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