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What's The Definition Of Market?
[n] the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"
[n] a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market" [n] the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor" [n] the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it" [v] make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life" [v] engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products" [v] deal in a market Synonyms | Synonyms for Market: commercialise | commercialize | food market | grocery | grocery store | marketplace | securities industry Related Terms | Find terms related to Market: agora | auto show | balance of trade | bazaar | be in | big business | bill of sale | boat show | browse | business | business dealings | buy and sell | call | campo | carriage trade | carry | clientage | clientele | close out | commerce | commercial affairs | commercial complex | commercial relations | competitive market | convert into cash | custom | cut under | deal in | dealing | dealings | demand | Dow-Jones Industrial Average | dump | effect a sale | emporium | exchange | exposition | fair | fair trade | flea fair | flea market | forum | free trade | furnish | give | go marketing | go shopping | handle | hawk | industry | intercourse | job | long market | make a sale | make available | market cross | market index | market overt | marketing | marketplace | mart | mass market | mercantile business | merchandise | merchandising | merchantry | move | multilateral trade | open market | outlet | patronage | peddle | piazza | place | plaza | public | purchasing public | reciprocal trade | resell | restraint of trade | retail | retailing | rialto | rural market | sacrifice | sale | sales | sell | sell off | sell on consignment | sell out | sell over | sell retail | sell short | sell up | sell wholesale | selling | shop | shopping center | shopping mall | shopping plaza | show | showroom | small business | spotty market | square | staple | steady market | stiff market | stock market | stock price index | store | street market | strong market | suburban market | supermarket | the business world | the market | the marketplace | ticker market | tie-in | top-heavy market | trade | trade fair | trade in | traffic | traffic in | truck | turn into money | turn over | turnover | undercut | undersell | unilateral trade | unload | unsteady market | vend | Wall Street | weak market | wholesale | wholesaling | wholesome | window-shop | youth market See Also | activity | alter | bear market | black market | black market | bull market | business | business enterprise | buyer's market | change | class | commercial enterprise | deal | greengrocery | industry | labor market | marketplace | mart | merchandise | money market | monopoly | monopsony | nondepository financial institution | offer | oligopoly | securities market | sell | seller's market | shelf | social class | socio-economic class | stock exchange | stock market | supermarket | trade Market In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\Mar"ket\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Marketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Marketing}.] To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. \Mar"ket\, v. t. To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops. Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth. --Southey. |
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