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Market
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 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."
- 2 the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a marketplace where groceries are sold wordnet
- 5 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."
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- 6 an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up wordnet
- 7 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."
- 8 the securities markets in the aggregate wordnet
- 9 A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
"Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta."
- 10 the customers for a particular product or service wordnet
- 11 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."
- 12 The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- 13 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."
- 1 To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. transitive
"We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter."
- 2 make commercial wordnet
- 3 To promote for or as if for sale. transitive
"However, the intention here is not to market any particular belief, but rather to catalyze people to think more about life after death and its meaning in the face of grief and loss."
- 4 engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of wordnet
- 5 To sell. transitive
"We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!"
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- 6 deal in a market wordnet
- 7 To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. intransitive
- 8 buy household supplies wordnet
- 9 To shop in a market; to attend a market. intransitive
"We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing."
Etymology
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 (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.
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 (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.
Topographic surname for someone who lived by a market.
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