market
Forms
- Plural
- markets
- present (v1)
- market
- past (v2)
- marketed
- past participle (v3)
- marketed
- present participle
- marketing
- 3rd person singular
- markets
Definitions
1.A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
- There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.
- The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
- The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
2.A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
- 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.’
3.Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
- Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.
4.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.
- 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.
1.To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
2.To promote for or as if for sale.
- 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.
3.To sell.
- We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
4.To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #453
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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”).