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| mar·ket [ mrkət ] |
noun (plural mar·kets) |
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1. gathering for buying and selling: a gathering in a public place for buying and selling merchandise or farm products, especially one held regularly
  a cattle market
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2. market building or place: a building or open space where a market is regularly held
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3. collection of shops or stalls: a number of small independently operated shops or stalls, housed in the same building and sometimes all selling the same type of goods
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4. economics politics supply and demand: the whole area of economic activity in which the laws of supply and demand operate, often thought of as a regulatory force affecting both economic and political affairs
market forces
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5. shop: a shop, especially one that sells goods or food of a particular type
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6. commerce region or group as customers: a geographic area or a section of the population, considered from the point of view of the amount of goods that can be sold to it
the teenage market
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7. commerce demand: the demand for goods or services being offered for sale
You've got to go out and create a market if you want to succeed.
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8. finance buying and selling: the trade in a particular commodity
the futures market
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9. stock exchange
Same as stock market
Prices rose on the New York and Chicago markets this morning.
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10. finance trading in stocks: trading in stocks and commodities
The market was very slow this morning but picked up later.
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11. finance prices or exchange rates: the prices or rates of exchange offered for stocks or commodities
The market fell this morning but rallied later.
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verb (past and past participle mar·ket·ed, present participle mar·ket·ing, 3rd person present singular mar·kets) |
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1. transitive verb promote product: to use advertising and other promotional techniques to attract buyers for something when it is put on sale
If this is marketed in the right way, it'll sell very well.
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2. transitive verb offer something for sale: to offer something for sale, or sell something, in a market
We market a wide range of products.
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3. intransitive verb Malaysia shop at market: to go shopping at a market
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| [Pre-12th century. Via Old French dialect< Latin mercat-, past participle of mercari "buy" < merx "goods"] |
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| mar·ket·er noun |
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come onto the market to become available for customers to buy
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in the market (for something) interested in buying or ready to buy something
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on the market available for customers to buy
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on the open market freely available and priced according to the law of supply and demand
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price something out of the market to charge so high a price for something as to make its sale unlikely
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put something on the market to offer something for sale
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