market

Meanings

Plural: markets

Noun

• the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
  • "without competition there would be no market"
  • "they were driven from the marketplace"
• the customers for a particular product or service
  • "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
• a marketplace where groceries are sold
  • "the grocery store included a meat market"
• the securities markets in the aggregate
  • "the market always frustrates the small investor"
• an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
• A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
• A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
• Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
• A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
• A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
• A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
• 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.

Verb

• engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
  • "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
• buy household supplies
  • "We go marketing every Saturday"
• deal in a market
• make commercial
• To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
• To sell.
• To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
• To shop in a market; to attend a market.

Synonyms

arcade, bazaar, commercialise, commercialize, fair, food market, grocery, grocery store, market place, marketplace, mart, securities industry

Related Words

marketer, marketing campaign, mart, mercantile, merchant