market
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).
Inflected forms:
form: markets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: markets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
gloss: A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
pos: noun
examples: This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
‘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.’
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.
gloss: Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
pos: noun
examples: Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.
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.
gloss: A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
pos: noun
examples: Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
gloss: A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
pos: noun
examples: The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.
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.
gloss: The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
pos: noun
gloss: The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
pos: noun
examples: Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.
What is a man
 If his chief good and market of his time
 Be but to sleep and feed?
gloss: To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
gloss: To promote for or as if for sale.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: However, the intention here is not to market any particular belief, but rather to catalyze people to think more about life after death and its meaning in the face of grief and loss.
gloss: To sell.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
gloss: To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To shop in a market; to attend a market.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.
Related words: mart
mercantile
merchant
marketer
marketing campaign
Derived words: aftermarket
after-market
antimarket
antiques market
assassination 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
farmer's market
farmers' 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
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
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
marketplace
market place
market-place
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
marketstead
market stead
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
mid-market
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
securities 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
marketeer
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
hypermarketed
nonmarketed
undermarketed
unmarketed
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سُوق
roman: sūq
lang: Bashkir
word: баҙар
roman: baźar
lang: Bulgarian
word: пазар
roman: pazar
lang: Bulgarian
word: базар
roman: bazar
lang: Catalan
word: mercat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 市場 /市场
roman: shìchǎng
lang: Czech
word: trh
lang: Danish
word: marked
lang: Dutch
word: markt
lang: Esperanto
word: bazaro
lang: Finnish
word: markkinat
lang: French
word: marché
lang: Galician
word: feira
lang: Galician
word: mercado
lang: German
word: Markt
lang: Bavarian German
word: Morkt
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻
roman: maþl
lang: Greek
word: αγορά
roman: agorá
lang: Hebrew
word: שוק
roman: shuk
lang: Hungarian
word: vásár
lang: Indonesian
word: pasar
lang: Ingrian
word: turu
lang: Ingrian
word: markkinat
lang: Ingrian
word: laatta
lang: Irish
word: margadh
lang: Italian
word: mercato
lang: Latin
word: macellum
lang: Latvian
word: tirgus
lang: Low German
word: Markt
lang: Malay
word: pasar
lang: Middle English
word: market
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Moakjt
lang: Portuguese
word: feira
lang: Punjabi
word: ਮੰਡੀ
roman: maṇḍī
lang: Punjabi
word: مَنْڈی
roman: manḍī
lang: Russian
word: я́рмарка
roman: jármarka
lang: Russian
word: база́р
roman: bazár
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: margaid
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: margadh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fèill
lang: Sicilian
word: fera
lang: Sicilian
word: mircatu
lang: Sindhi
word: بزار
roman: bazār
lang: Southern Altai
word: базар
roman: bazar
lang: Spanish
word: feria
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: wowoyo
lang: Swahili
word: soko
lang: Swedish
word: marknad
lang: Tamil
word: சந்தை
roman: cantai
lang: Tibetan
word: ཁྲོམ
roman: khrom
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بازار
roman: bazar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سوق
roman: suk
lang: Vietnamese
word: chợ