market

Pluralmarkets

Formsmarkets, marketing, marketed

1. 1
   place with stallsnouncountable

   A place where people set up stalls to sell food and other things, often on certain days each week.

   The Saturday market fills the town square with stands selling fruit and crafts.

   We bought fresh fish at the covered market near the harbor.

   UsageYou buy things at the market. A house on the market is for sale.

   Similarmarketplace

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2. 2
   customersnouncountable

   The people or places that buy, or might buy, a certain product.

   Like the group of fans a singer hopes will buy her new album.

   The market for skateboards is mostly teenagers.

   Toy companies study their market to learn what children want.

   UsageSay the market for something: the market for skateboards.

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3. 3
   verbtransitive

   To sell something, or to try to make people want to buy it, for example by advertising it.

   The company will market the new shoes to young runners.

   They market their honey at fairs and online.

   UsageSay market something to people. Write marketed and marketing with one t.

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4. 4
   trading systemnouncountable

   A system with rules where people buy and sell certain things, like stocks or oil.

   The stock market went up today, so her savings grew.

   Oil is bought and sold on an organized market with its own rules.

   UsageSay on the stock market.

   Similarexchange

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   Trade as a whole, where prices come from what buyers want and sellers offer, not from the government.

   Some people think the market should decide how much a house costs.

   When the government stopped setting the price of bread, the market took over.

   UsageUsually the market: the market decides, free markets.

6. 6
   nouncountable

   The total amount of buying and selling of a certain product.

   The market for used cars grew last year because new cars cost so much.

   The world market for coffee involves millions of tons of beans each year.

   Similartrade

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   grocery storenouncountable

   A store where you can buy food and other everyday things.

   Mom stopped at the market to pick up milk and bread.

   There's a small market on the corner that stays open late.

   Similarstore, grocery, shop

8. 8
   selling pricenoun

   The price that something sells for, or what it is worth.

   She paid a little above market for the house because she loved it.

   Our rent is well below market for this part of town.

   UsageMostly in phrases like below market and market value.

   Similarprice, value, worth

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