market

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

Verb Forms: marketed, marketing, markets

• To offer goods or services for sale to potential customers.
• 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.

Examples

• Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
• Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.
• Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.
• She decided to MARKET her incredible Scrabble strategy guide online.
• Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.
• The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
• The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
• There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.
• This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
• We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.
• We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
• We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.

Synonyms

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

Related Words

marketer, marketing campaign, mart, mercantile, merchant

Anagrams of market