market

/ˈmɑːkɪt//ˈmɑɹkɪt/

noun

  1. 1

    A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.

    The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh.
  2. 2

    City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.

  3. 3

    A grocery store

    Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk
  4. 4

    A group of potential customers for one's product.

    We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.
  5. 5

    A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.

    Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
  6. 6

    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.
  7. 7

    The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.

  8. 8

    The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.

verb

  1. 1

    To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

    We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
  2. 2

    To sell

    We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
  3. 3

    To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

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