marketful
marketful noun: a quantity that fills a market.
Noun
marketful (plural marketfuls or marketsful)
- A quantity that fills a market.
- There are traditions of whole towns set to make whole marketfuls of goods after the demand for such goods had ceased —Paisley, for instance, could have supplied the United Kingdom with grey shawls, when Yorkshire had clothed it in red shawls.1849, The Spectator - Volume 22, page 705
- It's no longer a Negro trailing at your skirt; it's a marketful of slaves, all sticking out their tongues.1994, Jean Genet, The Blacks: A Clown Show, →ISBN
- A sufficient number of potentially interested consumers.
- Ripplewood creates a presold marketful of prospects ripe for your order book.1954, American Lumberman & Building Products Merchandiser, page 27
- First there was Mr. Newmarket, symbol of the new male customers for prophylactics sent to you by doctors as a result of Schmid's Exclusive Trichomonal Re-infection Control Program —the program that created a whole new marketful of prophylactics users.1957, Pacific Drug Review - Volume 69, page 49
Examples of marketful in a sentence
- Had considerable properties as well, houses, a marketful of shops, owned a wood or two — two huge tracts of timberland, actually.2000, Sholem Aleichem, Nineteen To the Dozen: Monologues and Bits and Bobs of Other Things, →ISBN:
- Out in California's incredibly productive Inland Valley, there's a whole marketful of people with billions to spend.1959, Printers' Ink - Volume 269, page 2:
Forms of marketful
| plural | marketfuls |
|---|---|
| plural | marketsful |
Origin of marketful
From market + -ful.
Questions about marketful
- What does marketful mean?
- Marketful means a quantity that fills a market.
- How do you use marketful in a sentence?
- Had considerable properties as well, houses, a marketful of shops, owned a wood or two — two huge tracts of timberland, actually.
- What part of speech is marketful?
- Marketful is a noun.
- What is the plural of marketful?
- The plural of marketful is marketfuls.
Words near marketful in the dictionary
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