[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. |
| mar·ket·er (mär'kĭ-tər) n. One that sells goods or services in or to a market, especially one that markets a specified commodity: a major wine marketer. |