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market-town

market-town is the alternative form of market town.

Meaning of market town

Noun

market town (plural market towns)

  1. A town that has a traditional right to hold a regular market.
    • P'ing-tung was settled nearly 200 years ago and thus did not benefit from city planning under the Japanese administration (1895-1945). It is a typical market town with numerous light industries including rattan weaving, small machine shops and woodworking shops. A military airbase is located...1968, “P'ING-TUNG (Japanese HEITO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1092, column 2

Forms of market-town

pluralmarket-towns

Questions about market-town

What is market-town the alternative form of?
Market-town is the alternative form of market town.

Words near market-town in the dictionary

  1. market-ripe
  2. market-share
  3. market-shares
  4. market-stead
  5. market-steads
  6. market-town
  7. market-towns
  8. market-urbanist
  9. marketabilities
  10. marketability
  11. marketable

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