Market /(?)/

Mar·ket

Market

n.
  1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market.
    He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.
    Three women and a goose make a market.
    — Old Saying.
  2. 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.
    There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.
    — John v. 2.
  3. An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; 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; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market.
    There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.
    — J. S. Mill.
  4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
  5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
    What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed?
  6. The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. (Eng. Law)
  7. A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market.

Phrases & Compounds
Market beater
a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart.
Market bell
a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin.
Market cross
a cross set up where a market is held.
Market garden
a garden in which vegetables are raised for market.
Market gardening
the raising of vegetables for market.
Market place
an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held.
Market town
a town that has the privilege of a stated public market.

Market

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Marketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Marketing

  1. To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

Market

v. t.
  1. 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.
    Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth.