market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːkɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹkɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈmɑɹkət/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɑ(r).kɛʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-keʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-kəʈ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪt
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kət
Forms: form: markets
Etymology: From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all 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.
Senses: examples: text: The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
text: There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.
text: The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
ref: 1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action:
synonyms: mart#Noun
fair
glosses: A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
examples: text: This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
text: ‘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.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
synonyms: marketplace
bazaar
arcade
glosses: A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
examples: text: Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.
text: 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.
ref: 1999, Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, Scribner, →ISBN, pages 45-46:
glosses: Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
examples: text: We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.
text: Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
examples: text: Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
glosses: A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
examples: text: The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
text: As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.
ref: 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20:
text: 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.
ref: 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:
coordinate_terms: distribution channel[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
glosses: A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
glosses: The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
examples: text: Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.
text: What is a man
 If his chief good and market of his time
 Be but to sleep and feed?
ref: 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]:
glosses: The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
Derived terms: word: aftermarket
word: after-market
word: antimarket
word: antiques market
word: assassination market
word: bear market
word: black-market
word: black market
word: bond market
word: bring one's own hide to market
word: bull market
word: buyer's market
word: capital market
word: capital market line
word: carbon market
word: carry one's own hide to market
word: cattle market
word: Christmas market
word: clear the market
word: comarket
word: commodity market
word: Common Market
word: common market
word: competitive market
word: corner the market
word: cornmarket
word: crab market
word: cryptomarket
word: curb market
word: currency market
word: cybermarket
word: dark market
word: darknet market
word: decision market
word: demarket
word: derivatives market
word: downmarket
word: drive one's pigs to market
word: drug in the market
word: drug on the market
word: dry market
word: efficient market hypothesis
word: e-market
word: emerging market
word: euromarket
word: Euromarket
word: factor market
word: fair market value
word: farmers' market
word: farmer's market
word: farm market
word: feeing market
word: financial market
word: fishmarket
word: flea-market
word: flea market
word: floating market
word: foreign exchange market
word: forward market
word: fourth market
word: free-market
word: free market
word: free-market fundamentalism
word: futures market
word: global market
word: go-to-market
word: gray market
word: greenmarket
word: grey market
word: hard market
word: home market
word: home market effect
word: horizontal market
word: housing market
word: hypermarket
word: information market
word: job market
word: labor market
word: labour market
word: main market
word: Mammi market
word: mammy market
word: marchitecture
word: marketability
word: marketable
word: market anarchy
word: market basket
word: market bell
word: market bubble
word: market cap
word: market capitalization
word: market citizen
word: market citizenship
word: market class
word: market clearing
word: market communism
word: market correction
word: market cross
word: market cycle
word: market day
word: market discipline
word: market economy
word: marketecture
word: marketeer
word: market equilibrium
word: market failure
word: market force
word: market foreclosure
word: marketful
word: market fundamentalism
word: market-garden
word: market garden
word: market gardener
word: market gardening
word: market-goer
word: market horse
word: market-house
word: market index
word: marketing
word: marketisation
word: marketise
word: marketist
word: marketize
word: market jitters
word: market leader
word: market-led
word: marketless
word: market letter
word: marketlike
word: market maker
word: marketman
word: market microstructure
word: market opening
word: marketor
word: market order
word: market overhang
word: market overt
word: market penetration
word: market-place
word: market place
word: marketplace
word: market portfolio
word: market power
word: market price
word: market research
word: market return
word: market-ripe
word: market risk
word: market sector
word: market segment
word: market segmentation
word: market share
word: market-share
word: market socialism
word: marketspace
word: market square
word: market stall
word: market stead
word: market-stead
word: marketstead
word: market supplement
word: market sweep
word: market timing
word: market tone
word: market-town
word: market town
word: market urbanism
word: market urbanist
word: market-urbanist
word: market value
word: marketwide
word: marketwise
word: marketworthy
word: mark-to-market
word: mark to market
word: mass market
word: mass-market
word: meat market
word: meet market
word: megamarket
word: metamarket
word: micromarket
word: middle-market
word: middle of the market
word: mid-market
word: Mid-Market
word: mini market
word: minimarket
word: mismarket
word: missing market
word: money market
word: money-market fund
word: money market fund
word: multimarket
word: niche market
word: night market
word: nonmarket
word: non-market
word: off-market
word: on the market
word: open market
word: Operation Market Time
word: overmarket
word: perfect market
word: pitched market
word: postmarket
word: prediction market
word: predictive market
word: premarket
word: price out of the market
word: primary market
word: producer-only market
word: product market
word: promarket
word: property market
word: remarket
word: sample market
word: secondary market
word: security market line
word: seller's market
word: sexual market value
word: sharemarket
word: single market
word: slave market
word: soft market
word: spoil market
word: spoil the market
word: spot market
word: stock market
word: stock market crash
word: stock market index
word: street market
word: submarket
word: supermarket
word: take one's own hide to market
word: target market
word: telemarket
word: test-market
word: third market
word: time-to-market
word: time to market
word: transfer market
word: upmarket
word: vertical market
word: virtual market
word: wet market
word: white market
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Burnham Market
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Downham Market
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Elmstead Market
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Haymarket
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Market Bosworth
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Market Deeping
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Market Drayton
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Market Harborough
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Market Lavington
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Market Rasen
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Market Weighton
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Needham Market
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Pulham Market
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Thorpe Market
sense: Place names derived from market
word: Wickham Market
Related terms: mart
mercantile
merchant