Market

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1. Noun

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.

2. Noun

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.

3. Noun

An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; 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.

4. Noun

Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.

5. Noun

The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.

6. Noun

The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.

7. Verb

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

8. Verb

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.

9. Verb

engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
Vocabulary classified under Business and finance

10. Noun

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"
Vocabulary classified under Economics

11. Noun

the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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