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market

Syllables: mar·ket/ˈmɑːkɪt//ˈmɑɹkɪt/

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

Noun

market (plural markets)

  1. A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
    • The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
    • There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.
    Synonyms:
    mart, fair
  2. A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
    • This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
    • ‘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.’1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  3. Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
    • Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.
    • Mixes [such as cake mixes, pancake mixes, or sauce mixes] are sometimes a reasonable alternative and sometimes not. […] Pancake mixes often offer no advantages at all. Nonetheless, there are times when you would be foolish not to use a mix. Perhaps a domestic emergency occurs. Perhaps cupcakes must...1999, Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, Scribner, →ISBN, pages 45-46
  4. A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
    • We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.
    • Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.
    Synonyms:
    sale
  5. A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
    • Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
  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.
    • As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20
  7. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
  8. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
    • Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.
    • What is a man
      If his chief good and market of his time
      Be but to sleep and feed?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Verb

market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)

  1. (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
    • We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
  2. (transitive) To promote for or as if for sale.
    • However, the intention here is not to market any particular belief, but rather to catalyze people to think more about life after death and its meaning in the face of grief and loss.1994, Simcha Paull Raphael, Jewish Views of the Afterlife, page 364
  3. (transitive) To sell.
    • We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
  4. (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
  5. (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
    • We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 201

Proper noun capitalized: Market

Market (plural Markets)

  1. A surname.

market meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

market in Hindi

spacious site for trading
बाज़ार bāzār, मार्केट mārkeṭ, हाट hāṭ, गंज gañj, मंडी maṇḍī, बजार bajār

market in Tamil

gathering for trading
சந்தை cantai
spacious site for trading
சந்தை cantai, சாற்று cāṟṟu
formally organized system of trading in specified goods or effects
சந்தை cantai

market in Marathi

spacious site for trading
बाजार bājār

market in Urdu

spacious site for trading
بازار bāzār, مَنْڈی manḍī, مارْکیٹ mārkeṭ
More languagesFewer languages
market in Bengali
বাজার bajar, মার্কেট markeṭ
market in Telugu
విపణి vipaṇi, బజారు bajāru
market in Malayalam
ചന്ത canta, അങ്ങാടി aṅṅāṭi
market in Kannada
ಪೇಟೆ pēṭe, ಕೊಳ್ಳು koḷḷu, ಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ mārukaṭṭe
market in Punjabi
ਮੰਡੀ maṇḍī, مَنْڈی manḍī, ਬਜ਼ਾਰ bazār, ਹਾਟ hāṭ
market in Gujarati
બજાર bajār, હાટ hāṭ
market in Odia
ମାର୍କେଟ୍ mārkeṭ, ବଜାର bajāra
market in Sanskrit
पण्यशाला paṇyaśālā
market in Sinhala
අළෙවිපළ aḷewipaḷa
market in Assamese
বজাৰ bozar
market in Nepali
बजार bajār
market in Pashto
بازار bāzār
market in Tagalog
kabanata
market in Arabic
سُوق sūq
market in Malay
pasar, pasaran, pekan, memasarkan
market in Indonesian
pasar, memasarkan
market in Thai
ตลาด dtà-làat
market in Vietnamese
chợ, thị trường
market in Myanmar
ဈေး jhe:
Sindhi
بزار bazār

Examples of market in a sentence

  • The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action:
  • 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.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
  • 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.1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume (please specify...
  • If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […].2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2014:

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Synonyms of market

All synonyms of market

Forms of market

Noun
pluralmarkets
Verb
third-person singular presentmarkets
present participlemarketing
past participlemarketed
pastmarketed
Proper noun
pluralMarkets

Past tense of market: marketed

Plural of market: markets

Origin of market

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).

Topographic surname for someone who lived by a market.

Words formed from market

Phrases with market

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Words that rhyme with market

Questions about market

What does market mean?
Market means a gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
What is market in Hindi?
Market in Hindi is बाज़ार (bāzār), मार्केट (mārkeṭ), हाट (hāṭ). See Market meaning in Hindi.
How do you use market in a sentence?
The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
What part of speech is market?
Market can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce market?
Market is pronounced /ˈmɑːkɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of market?
The plural of market is markets.

Words near market in the dictionary

  1. Markert
  2. Markerts
  3. markery
  4. markes
  5. markest
  6. market
  7. market anarchy
  8. market basket
  9. market baskets
  10. market bell
  11. market bells

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