market.
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
Meaning & usage
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.
A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.
A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.
Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.
A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).
To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
To promote for or as if for sale.
To sell.
We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
To shop in a market; to attend a market.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).
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