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market

[ mahr-kit ]

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, especially 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.



verb (used without object)

  1. to buy or sell in a market; deal.
  2. to buy food and provisions for the home.

verb (used with object)

  1. to advertise (something) to a target audience or for a recommended use: This movie was marketed as a horror film, rather than a drama.

    The vacation homes are marketed to retirees and other seniors.

    This movie was marketed as a horror film, rather than a drama.

  2. to carry or send to market for disposal:

    to market produce every week.

  3. to dispose of in a market; sell.

    Synonyms: peddle, merchandise, vend

market

/ ˈmɑːkɪt /

noun

    1. an event or occasion, usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise
    2. ( as modifier )

      market day

  1. a place, such as an open space in a town, at which a market is held
  2. a shop that sells a particular merchandise

    an antique market

  3. the market
    the market business or trade in a commodity as specified

    the sugar market

  4. the trading or selling opportunities provided by a particular group of people

    the foreign market

  5. demand for a particular product or commodity

    there is no market for furs here

  6. at market
    at market at the current price
  7. be in the market for
    be in the market for to wish to buy or acquire
  8. on the market
    on the market available for purchase
  9. play the market
    play the market
    1. to speculate on a stock exchange
    2. to act aggressively or unscrupulously in one's own commercial interests
  10. buyer's market
    buyer's market a market characterized by excess supply and thus favourable to buyers
  11. seller's market
    seller's market a market characterized by excess demand and thus favourable to sellers


verb

  1. tr to offer or produce for sale
  2. intr to buy or deal in a market

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Derived Forms

  • ˈmarketer, noun

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Other Words From

  • mar·ket·er noun
  • mul·ti·mar·ket adjective
  • non·mar·ket noun adjective
  • pre·mar·ket verb
  • re·mar·ket verb (used with object)
  • sub·mar·ket noun
  • un·der·mar·ket verb (used with object)
  • un·mar·ket·ed adjective
  • well-mar·ket·ed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of market1

First recorded in 1100–1150; Middle English market, market(t)e, markat(t)e, late Old English market, from Vulgar Latin marcātus (assumed), from Latin mercātus “trading, traffic, market”; merchant ( def )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of market1

C12: from Latin mercātus; from mercāri to trade, from merx merchandise

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. at the market, at the prevailing price in the open market.
  2. in the market for, ready to buy; interested in buying:

    I'm in the market for a new car.

  3. on the market, for sale; available:

    Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week.

More idioms and phrases containing market

see corner the market ; drug on the market ; flea market ; in the market for ; on the market ; play the market ; price out of the market .

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Example Sentences

Bauer has never played professionally in a market such as Los Angeles before, never played in a clubhouse as established and accomplished as that of the Dodgers.

The brand’s soft voice in the market was compounded by a siloed approach to marketing investment.

When you buy frozen veggies at the market, make sure you can move the individual veggies around in the bag.

Franchises are still trying out ways to market teams to their assigned cities.

In terms of consumer attitudes and behavior, there has never been a single force that has so significantly shaped the home improvement market.

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It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.

Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.

Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.

Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.

Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.

When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.

The declaration of war, or cessation thereof, used to be proclaimed in the market by the High Bailiff.

His partner, Boulton, had a lot ready for the market, and sold 150 by the end of the year.

It was, moreover, of a very poor colour and certainly not of the kind that would readily find a market.

Lovers our little Dorothy had by the score, though she was never seen but at church or at market.

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