market Definition

market
noun

1. A gathering of people that takes place periodically, where stalls, etc are set up allowing them to buy and sell a variety of goods or a specified type of goods.
2. A public place, square, building, etc in which this regularly takes place.
3. A particular region, country or section of the population, considered as a potential customer.

Example: the French market
Example: the teenage market
4. Buying and selling; a level of trading.

Example: The market is slow
5. Opportunity for buying and selling; demand.

Example: no market for these goods


Example: market day
Example: market share
Example: market trader
(especially N Amer)
7. A shop or supermarket.

verb marketed, marketing

1. To offer something for sale; to promote (goods, etc).

Thesaurus: sell, vend, exchange, retail, barter, peddle, hawk.
intr
2. To trade or deal, especially at a market.
(especially US)
intr
3. To shop; to buy provisions.

Derivative: marketable
adj

(of a product) easy to market or sell
Thesaurus: sellable, sought after, wanted, in demand.

Derivative: marketability
noun

Idiom: be in the market for something

To wish to buy it.

Idiom: on the market

On sale; able to be bought. See also stock market.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon: from Latin mercatus trade or market.