market
Meanings
noun
- 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
- To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- To promote for or as if for sale.
- 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.
name
- A surname.
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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”). Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, Old High German Markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).
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