Marketful

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A quantity that fills a market.

    "There are traditions of whole towns set to make whole marketfuls of goods after the demand for such goods had ceased —Paisley, for instance, could have supplied the United Kingdom with grey shawls, when Yorkshire had clothed it in red shawls."

  2. 2
    A sufficient number of potentially interested consumers.

    "Ripplewood creates a presold marketful of prospects ripe for your order book."

Example

More examples

"There are traditions of whole towns set to make whole marketfuls of goods after the demand for such goods had ceased —Paisley, for instance, could have supplied the United Kingdom with grey shawls, when Yorkshire had clothed it in red shawls."

Etymology

From market + -ful.

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