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nonmarket

nonmarket adjective: not market-based; often specifically lacking the openness of a free market.

Adjective

nonmarket (not comparable)

  1. Not market-based; often specifically lacking the openness of a free market.
    • nonmarket forces
    • In fact, it is arguably the nonmarket orientation (monopoly characteristics) of professional baseball that has sent players’ earnings, team owners’ profits and companies’ market valuations (and dividends) into the stratosphere.2007 June 24, “Letters”, in New York Times

Noun

nonmarket (plural nonmarkets)

  1. That which is not a market.

Forms of nonmarket

Adjective
alternative formnon-market
Noun
pluralnonmarkets

Origin of nonmarket

From non- + market.

Questions about nonmarket

What does nonmarket mean?
Nonmarket means not market-based; often specifically lacking the openness of a free market.
What part of speech is nonmarket?
Nonmarket can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonmarket in the dictionary

  1. nonmarijuana
  2. nonmarine
  3. nonmarital
  4. nonmaritime
  5. nonmarked
  6. nonmarket
  7. nonmarketable
  8. nonmarketed
  9. nonmarketer
  10. nonmarketers
  11. nonmarketing

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