market

中文： 市场、巴扎

1. 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.
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.
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. · Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.
5. A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists. · Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
6. 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.
7. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
8. 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.

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