Etimology
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); both ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”).
noun
market (plural markets)
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
A grocery store
A group of potential customers for one's product.
A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
(obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
Examples
The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk
We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.
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.
Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.
If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony , when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?
Related words
synonyms
bazaar
fair
mart
arcade
related terms
mart
mercantile
merchant
verb
market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)
(transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
(transitive) To sell.
(intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
(intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
Examples
We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.
Related words
related terms
marketer
marketing campaign