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Definition of Market
1. Verb. Engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of. "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
Generic synonyms: Merchandise, Trade
Specialized synonyms: Offer
Derivative terms: Marketable, Marketable, Marketer
2. Noun. The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold. "They were driven from the marketplace"
Generic synonyms: Activity
Terms within: Business, Business Enterprise, Commercial Enterprise
Specialized synonyms: Black Market, Buyer's Market, Buyers' Market, Soft Market, Gray Market, Grey Market, Seller's Market, Sellers' Market, Labor Market, Monopoly, Monopsony, Oligopoly
3. Verb. Buy household supplies. "We go marketing every Saturday"
4. Noun. The customers for a particular product or service. "Before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
Specialized synonyms: Black Market
5. Verb. Deal in a market.
Generic synonyms: Deal, Sell, Trade
Derivative terms: Marketing, Marketing
6. Noun. A marketplace where groceries are sold. "The grocery store included a meat market"
Specialized synonyms: Greengrocery, Supermarket
Generic synonyms: Market Place, Marketplace, Mart
Terms within: Shelf
7. Verb. Make commercial. "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life"
Category relationships: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Commercialisation, Commercialization, Marketable, Marketable, Marketable, Marketing
8. Noun. The securities markets in the aggregate. "The market always frustrates the small investor"
Member holonyms: Securities Market, Stock Exchange, Stock Market, Nondepository Financial Institution
Generic synonyms: Industry
Specialized synonyms: Bear Market, Bull Market, The City, The Street, Wall Street, Money Market
9. Noun. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
Specialized synonyms: Agora, Public Square, Bazaar, Bazar, Food Market, Grocery, Grocery Store, Market Square, Open-air Market, Open-air Marketplace, Slave Market, Agora
Generic synonyms: Mercantile Establishment, Outlet, Retail Store, Sales Outlet
Definition of Market
1. n. 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.
2. v. i. To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
3. 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.
Definition of Market
1. Noun. City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. ¹
2. Noun. An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site ¹
3. Noun. A group of potential customers for one's product. ¹
4. Noun. A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exist ¹
5. Noun. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects ¹
6. Noun. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To sell ¹
9. Adjective. Relating to a (commercial) market. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Market
1. to offer for sale [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Market
1. 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; especially, 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. The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. 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. Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held. 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. Origin: Akin to D. Markt, OHG. Markat, merkat, 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. Marche. See Merit, and cf. Merchant, Mart. To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. Origin: Marketed; Marketing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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