# market
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); both ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈmɑːkɪt/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈmɑɹkɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈmɑɹkət/
* Hyphenation: mar‧ket
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪt, -ɑɹkət

### Noun

market (plural markets)
* A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
    Synonyms: mart, fair
    The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
    There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.
** 1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action:The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
* A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
    Synonyms: marketplace, bazaar, arcade
    This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’
** 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
* Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
    Hyponym: supermarket (large type)
    Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.
** 1999, Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, Scribner, →ISBN, pages 45-46:Mixes [such as cake mixes, pancake mixes, or sauce mixes] are sometimes a reasonable alternative and sometimes not. […] Pancake mixes often offer no advantages at all. Nonetheless, there are times when you would be foolish not to use a mix. Perhaps a domestic emergency occurs. Perhaps cupcakes must be brought to school tomorrow morning, but when you stop at the market on your way home from work, you cannot remember whether you have baking powder, cream of tartar, baking soda, nutmeg, cake flour, chocolate, or vanilla on your shelf, or you want to go through the “five items or fewer” line. So you buy the mix. Only a glutton for punishment would do otherwise.
* 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.
    Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.
** 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC: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.
* A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
    Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
* A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
    Coordinate term: distribution channel (sometimes broadly synonymous)
    The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
** 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20:As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.
** 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
* The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
* The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
    Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?

#### Derived terms

* aftermarket
* after-market
* antimarket
* antiques market
* bear market
* black market
* black-market
* bond market
* bring one's own hide to market
* bull market
* buyer's market
* capital market
* capital market line
* carbon market
* carry one's own hide to market
* cattle market
* Christmas market
* clear the market
* comarket
* commodity market
* Common Market
* common market
* competitive market
* corner the market
* cornmarket
* crab market
* cryptomarket
* curb market
* currency market
* cybermarket
* dark market
* darknet market
* decision market
* demarket
* derivatives market
* downmarket
* drive one's pigs to market
* drug in the market
* drug on the market
* dry market
* efficient market hypothesis
* e-market
* emerging market
* euromarket
* Euromarket
* factor market
* fair market value
* farmers' market
* farmer's market
* farm market
* feeing market
* financial market
* fishmarket
* flea market
* flea-market
* floating market
* foreign exchange market
* forward market
* fourth market
* free-market
* free market
* free-market fundamentalism
* fruit market
* futures market
* global market
* go-to-market
* gray market
* greenmarket
* grey market
* hard market
* home market
* home market effect
* horizontal market
* housing market
* hypermarket
* information market
* job market
* labor market
* labour market
* main market
* Mammi market
* mammy market
* marchitecture
* marketability
* marketable
* market anarchy
* market basket
* market bell
* market bubble
* market cap
* market capitalization
* market citizen
* market citizenship
* market class
* market clearing
* market communism
* market correction
* market cross
* market cycle
* market day
* market discipline
* market economy
* marketecture
* marketeer
* market equilibrium
* market failure
* market force
* market foreclosure
* marketful
* market fundamentalism
* market-garden
* market garden
* market gardener
* market gardening
* market-goer
* market horse
* market-house
* market index
* marketing
* marketisation
* marketise
* marketist
* marketize
* market jitters
* market leader
* market-led
* marketless
* market letter
* marketlike
* market maker
* marketman
* market microstructure
* market opening
* marketor
* market order
* market overhang
* market overt
* market penetration
* market-place
* market place
* marketplace
* market portfolio
* market power
* market price
* market research
* market return
* market-ripe
* market risk
* market sector
* market segment
* market segmentation
* market share
* market-share
* market socialism
* marketspace
* market square
* market stall
* market stead
* market-stead
* marketstead
* market supplement
* market sweep
* market timing
* market tone
* market-town
* market town
* market urbanism
* market urbanist
* market-urbanist
* market value
* marketwide
* marketwise
* marketworthy
* mark-to-market
* mark to market
* mass market
* mass-market
* meat market
* meet market
* megamarket
* metamarket
* micromarket
* middle-market
* middle of the market
* midmarket
* Mid-Market
* mini market
* minimarket
* mismarket
* missing market
* money market
* money-market fund
* money market fund
* multimarket
* niche market
* night market
* nonmarket
* non-market
* off-market
* on the market
* open market
* Operation Market Time
* overmarket
* perfect market
* pitched market
* postmarket
* prediction market
* predictive market
* premarket
* price out of the market
* primary market
* producer-only market
* product market
* promarket
* property market
* remarket
* sample market
* secondary market
* security market line
* seller's market
* sexual market value
* sharemarket
* single market
* slave market
* soft market
* spoil market
* spoil the market
* spot market
* stock market
* stock market crash
* stock market index
* street market
* submarket
* supermarket
* take one's own hide to market
* target market
* telemarket
* test-market
* third market
* time-to-market
* time to market
* transfer market
* upmarket
* vertical market
* virtual market
* wet market
* white market
* Burnham Market
* Downham Market
* Elmstead Market
* Haymarket
* Market Bosworth
* Market Deeping
* Market Drayton
* Market Harborough
* Market Lavington
* Market Rasen
* Market Weighton
* Needham Market
* Pulham Market
* Thorpe Market
* Wickham Market

#### Related terms

* mart
* mercantile
* merchant

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: মার্কেট (markeṭ)
* → Hindi: मार्केट (mārkeṭ)
* → Japanese: マーケット (māketto)
* → Korean: 마켓 (maket)
* → Odia: ମାର୍କେଟ୍ (mārkeṭ)
* → Persian: (Dari) مارکیت (mârkêt)
* → Turkish: market
* → Urdu: مارکیٹ (markeṭ)

#### Translations

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### Verb

market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)
* (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
    We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
* (transitive) To sell.
    We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
* (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
* (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
** 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 201:We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.

#### Derived terms

* marketeer

#### Related terms

* marketer
* marketing campaign

#### Translations
### References

* “market”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* market in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “market”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑrket/, [ˈmɑ̝rk̟e̞t̪]
* Rhymes: -ɑrket
* Hyphenation: mar‧ket

### Noun

market
* Alternative form of marketti

#### Declension

Possessive forms of market (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
marketini
marketini
accusative
nom.
marketini
marketini
gen.
marketini
genitive
marketini
marketieni
partitive
marketiani
marketejani
inessive
marketissani
marketeissani
elative
marketistani
marketeistani
illative
marketiini
marketeihini
adessive
marketillani
marketeillani
ablative
marketiltani
marketeiltani
allative
marketilleni
marketeilleni
essive
marketinani
marketeinani
translative
marketikseni
marketeikseni
abessive
marketittani
marketeittani
instructive
comitative
—marketeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
marketisi
marketisi
accusative
nom.
marketisi
marketisi
gen.
marketisi
genitive
marketisi
marketiesi
partitive
marketiasi
marketejasi
inessive
marketissasi
marketeissasi
elative
marketistasi
marketeistasi
illative
marketiisi
marketeihisi
adessive
marketillasi
marketeillasi
ablative
marketiltasi
marketeiltasi
allative
marketillesi
marketeillesi
essive
marketinasi
marketeinasi
translative
marketiksesi
marketeiksesi
abessive
marketittasi
marketeittasi
instructive
comitative
—marketeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
marketimme
marketimme
accusative
nom.
marketimme
marketimme
gen.
marketimme
genitive
marketimme
marketiemme
partitive
marketiamme
marketejamme
inessive
marketissamme
marketeissamme
elative
marketistamme
marketeistamme
illative
marketiimme
marketeihimme
adessive
marketillamme
marketeillamme
ablative
marketiltamme
marketeiltamme
allative
marketillemme
marketeillemme
essive
marketinamme
marketeinamme
translative
marketiksemme
marketeiksemme
abessive
marketittamme
marketeittamme
instructive
comitative
—marketeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
marketinne
marketinne
accusative
nom.
marketinne
marketinne
gen.
marketinne
genitive
marketinne
marketienne
partitive
marketianne
marketejanne
inessive
marketissanne
marketeissanne
elative
marketistanne
marketeistanne
illative
marketiinne
marketeihinne
adessive
marketillanne
marketeillanne
ablative
marketiltanne
marketeiltanne
allative
marketillenne
marketeillenne
essive
marketinanne
marketeinanne
translative
marketiksenne
marketeiksenne
abessive
marketittanne
marketeittanne
instructive
comitative
—marketeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
marketinsa
marketinsa
accusative
nom.
marketinsa
marketinsa
gen.
marketinsa
genitive
marketinsa
marketiensa
partitive
marketiaan marketiansa
marketejaan marketejansa
inessive
marketissaan marketissansa
marketeissaan marketeissansa
elative
marketistaan marketistansa
marketeistaan marketeistansa
illative
marketiinsa
marketeihinsa
adessive
marketillaan marketillansa
marketeillaan marketeillansa
ablative
marketiltaan marketiltansa
marketeiltaan marketeiltansa
allative
marketilleen marketillensa
marketeilleen marketeillensa
essive
marketinaan marketinansa
marketeinaan marketeinansa
translative
marketikseen marketiksensa
marketeikseen marketeiksensa
abessive
marketittaan marketittansa
marketeittaan marketeittansa
instructive
comitative
—marketeineen marketeinensa :

### Further reading

* “market”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* kermat

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* marcat, markat, marked, marketh
* markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)

### Etymology

From late Old English market (“market”), from Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Vulgar Latin marcātus, from classical Latin mercātus (“trade, market”).
Variants ending /t/ are from either Old Saxon or Old Picard, while those ending in /θ/ are from other varieties of Old Northern French (e.g. Walloon).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /marˈkeːt/, /ˈmarkat/, /ˈmarkɛt/
* (ending in /θ/) IPA: /marˈkɛːθ/, /ˈmarkɛθ/

### Noun

market (plural marketes, dative markete)
* A market; (periodic public assembly for buying or selling).
* A marketplace; a square for holding markets.
* (rare) A market town; a town where markets are held.
* (rare) Trade, interchange, interaction.

#### Descendants

* English: market (see there for further descendants)
* Middle Scots: market, mercat
** Scots: market
* Yola: maarkeet, markeat

#### References

* ↑ Derek Britton (1992 July) “The -th spellings of English market”, in Neophilologus, volume 76, →DOI, pages 446–451
* ↑ Christian Liebl (1994 July) “Some critical comments on V. Kniezsa’s ‘The post-Conquest lexical elements in the Peterborough Chronicle’”, in VIEWS: Vienna English Working Papers‎, volume 3, number 1, Universität Wien, pages 35-44
* ↑ “market, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mercātus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑr.ket/, [ˈmɑrˠ.ket]

### Noun

market m
* market

#### Descendants

* Middle English: market, marcat, markat, marked, marketh, markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)
** English: market (see there for further descendants)
** Middle Scots: market, mercat
*** Scots: market
** Yola: maarkeet, markeat

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* markiet

### Etymology

See marchié.

### Noun

market oblique singular, m (oblique plural markés, nominative singular markés, nominative plural market)
* (Old Northern French) market; venue where goods are bought and sold

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English market, from Middle English market, from late Old English market and Anglo-Norman markiet, from Latin mercātus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmar.kɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arkɛt
* Syllabification: mar‧ket

### Noun

market m inan
* market (grocery store)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* market in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* market in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English market.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɑɾ.cet/

### Noun

market (definite accusative marketi, plural marketler)
* market

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
market
marketler
definite accusative
marketi
marketleri
dative
markete
marketlere
locative
markette
marketlerde
ablative
marketten
marketlerden
genitive
marketin
marketlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
marketim
marketlerim
2nd singular
marketin
marketlerin
3rd singular
marketi
marketleri
1st plural
marketimiz
marketlerimiz
2nd plural
marketiniz
marketleriniz
3rd plural
marketleri
marketleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
marketimi
marketlerimi
2nd singular
marketini
marketlerini
3rd singular
marketini
marketlerini
1st plural
marketimizi
marketlerimizi
2nd plural
marketinizi
marketlerinizi
3rd plural
marketlerini
marketlerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
marketime
marketlerime
2nd singular
marketine
marketlerine
3rd singular
marketine
marketlerine
1st plural
marketimize
marketlerimize
2nd plural
marketinize
marketlerinize
3rd plural
marketlerine
marketlerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
marketimde
marketlerimde
2nd singular
marketinde
marketlerinde
3rd singular
marketinde
marketlerinde
1st plural
marketimizde
marketlerimizde
2nd plural
marketinizde
marketlerinizde
3rd plural
marketlerinde
marketlerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
marketimden
marketlerimden
2nd singular
marketinden
marketlerinden
3rd singular
marketinden
marketlerinden
1st plural
marketimizden
marketlerimizden
2nd plural
marketinizden
marketlerinizden
3rd plural
marketlerinden
marketlerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
marketimin
marketlerimin
2nd singular
marketinin
marketlerinin
3rd singular
marketinin
marketlerinin
1st plural
marketimizin
marketlerimizin
2nd plural
marketinizin
marketlerinizin
3rd plural
marketlerinin
marketlerinin :