 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
market
noun
1: 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"
[syn: {marketplace}]
2: the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always
frustrates the small investor" [syn: {securities industry}]
3: the customers for a particular product or service; "before
they publish any book they try to determine the size of
the market for it"
4: a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store
included a meat market" [syn: {grocery store}, {grocery},
{food market}]
verb
1: engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution
of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty
products"
2: buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday"
3: deal in a market
4: make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized
their way of life" [syn: {commercialize}, {commercialise}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Market \Mar"ket\, noun [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 buying and selling (as cattle,
provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and
not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every
week; a farmers' market.
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 or buying anything; demand, as
shown by price offered or obtainable; 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
are none for sale on the market; the best price on the
market.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
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.
7. A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in
which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where
the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey
market.
[PJC]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Market \Mar"ket\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Market \Mar"ket\, verb (used with an object)
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "market":
Dow-Jones Industrial Average, Wall Street, 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, 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, weak market,
wholesale, wholesaling, wholesome, window-shop, youth market
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