Market
['mɑːkɪt] or ['mɑrkɪt]
Definition
(noun.) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; 'without competition there would be no market'; 'they were driven from the marketplace'.
(noun.) the securities markets in the aggregate; 'the market always frustrates the small investor'.
(noun.) the customers for a particular product or service; 'before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it'.
(verb.) engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; 'The company is marketing its new line of beauty products'.
(verb.) deal in a market.
(verb.) buy household supplies; 'We go marketing every Saturday'.
Edited by Brent--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
(n.) A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
(n.) An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods.
(n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
(n.) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
(n.) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
(v. i.) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
(v. t.) To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.
Checker: Yale
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Mart, emporium, ENTREPOT, place of traffic.[2]. Market-house, market-place.[3]. Sale, opportunity to sell.
Typist: Marietta
Definition
n. a public place for the purposes of buying and selling: the time for the market: sale: rate of sale: value.—v.i. to deal at a market: to buy and sell.—ns. Marketabil′ity Mar′ketableness.—adj. Mar′ketable fit for the market: saleable.—ns. Mar′ket-bell (Shak.) a bell to give notice of the time; Mar′ket-cross a cross anciently set up where a market was held; Mar′ket-day the fixed day on which a market is usually held; Mar′keter; Mar′ket-gar′den a garden in which fruit and vegetables are grown for market; Mar′ket-gar′dener; Mar′ket-house a building in which a market is held; Mar′keting the act or practice of buying and selling in market; Mar′ket-place the open space in a town where markets are held; Mar′ket-price the price at which anything is sold in the market: the current price; Mar′ket-town a town having the privilege of holding a public market.
Editor: Rodney
Unserious Contents or Definition
To visit a fish market in your dream, brings competence and pleasure. To see decayed fish, foretells distress will come in the guise of happiness.
To dream that you are in a market, denotes thrift and much activity in all occupations. To see an empty market, indicates depression and gloom. To see decayed vegetables or meat, denotes losses in business. For a young woman, a market foretells pleasant changes.
Edited by Babbage
Examples
- If your crop comes shorter into market than any of theirs, you won't lose your bet, I suppose? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Where the market rate of interest is five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Hubbard had advertised Bell’s telephone, Sanders had financed it, and now Vail pushed it on the market. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Of course, we all remember how the battery was completed and put on the market. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Best brands Georgian, none in market; second quality, 1851, L180. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I don't know, either, about religion's being up in the market, just now. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- What does this unwonted excitement about such an every-day occurrence as a return from market portend? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But in the seaport and markets mingled men of every known race, comparing their religious ideas and customs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The wool would produce me a better price if it were suffered to go to foreign markets; but that, Messieurs the Public, your laws will not permit. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It brought prosperity and ease and comfort, it allowed the small as well as the large owner to have his share of the profits of the markets of the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She attended the markets--she insisted upon being supplied with food for those who were too poor to purchase it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The nature of the commodity renders it not quite so proper for being transported to distant markets as wool. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The town is capable of holding five hundred thousand souls: the houses are from three to five stories: the shops and markets well provided. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It was the only size of dynamo that the Edison Company had marketed at that time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Since then several others have been marketed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To show my penitence, will you accept a ten pound note towards your marketing, and give the poor fellows a feast? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In her snowy-frilled cap she reminded one of that delightful Frenchwoman whom we have all seen marketing, basket on arm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He appreciated fully its inherent difficulties, not only in manufacture, but also in the marketing of the product. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But I suppose Mrs. Thornton assists you in your marketing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Immediately the necessity for more care in selecting and marketing honey was apparent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checker: Lorenzo