market
/ˈmɑɹkɪt/ noun A2- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time. · 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A group of potential or current customers for one's product. · Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.
- 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. · The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
- 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.
Plural markets
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And, sitting down, he wrote a letter to his broker, ordering him to sell out at the market price.
The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new gown.
A CERTAIN rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan.
I have, therefore, received a very good education, and have been treated by these kidnappers very much as the slaves were treated in Asia Minor, whose masters made them grammarians, doctors, and philosophers, in order that they might fetch a higher price in the Roman market.”
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