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.]
(mär'kĭt) 