markets

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.

   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.

   Synonyms:

   marketplace, bazaar, arcade

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.
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.

   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.

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