Market (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  2. a store for the sale of food: a meat market.
  3. a meeting of people for selling and buying.
  4. the assemblage of people at such a meeting.
  5. trade or traffic, especially as regards a particular commodity: the market in cotton.
  6. a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity: the cotton market.
  7. the field of trade or business: the best shoes in the market.
  8. demand for a commodity: an unprecedented market for leather.
  9. a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services: the health-food market.
  10. a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used: the foreign market; the New England market.
  11. current price or value: a rising market for shoes.
  12. stock market.
verb (used without object)
  1. to buy or sell in a market; deal.
  2. to buy food and provisions for the home.
verb (used with object)
  1. to advertise (something) to a target audience or for a recommended use: The vacation homes are marketed to retirees and other seniors.This movie was marketed as a horror film, rather than a drama.
  2. to carry or send to market for disposal: to market produce every week.
  3. to dispose of in a market; sell.
Idioms
  1. at the prevailing price in the open market.
  2. ready to buy; interested in buying: I'm in the market for a new car.
  3. for sale; available: Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week.
noun
    • an event or occasion, usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise
    • (as modifier)
  2. a place, such as an open space in a town, at which a market is held
  3. a shop that sells a particular merchandise
  4. business or trade in a commodity as specified
  5. the trading or selling opportunities provided by a particular group of people
  6. demand for a particular product or commodity
  7. See stock market
  8. See market price, market value
  9. at the current price
  10. to wish to buy or acquire
  11. available for purchase
  12. play the market
    • to speculate on a stock exchange
    • to act aggressively or unscrupulously in one's own commercial interests
  13. a market characterized by excess supply and thus favourable to buyers
  14. a market characterized by excess demand and thus favourable to sellers
verb -kets, -keting or -keted
  1. to offer or produce for sale
  2. to buy or deal in a market
Market (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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