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market

/mˈɑɹkʌt/noun, verb2 syllables

Market means: a marketplace where groceries are sold.

Synonyms for market9

noun, as in a marketplace where groceries are sold

grocery store, grocery, food market

noun, as in an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

marketplace, market place, mart

noun, as in the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

marketplace, market place

noun, as in the securities markets in the aggregate

securities industry

verb, as in make commercial

commercialize, commercialise

What does market mean?9

noun

1

a marketplace where groceries are sold“the grocery store included a meat market”

2

an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

3

the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold“without competition there would be no market”

4

the securities markets in the aggregate“the market always frustrates the small investor”

5

the customers for a particular product or service“before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it”

verb

1

make commercial“Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life”

2

engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of“The company is marketing its new line of beauty products”

3

buy household supplies“We go marketing every Saturday”

4

deal in a market

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Market in a sentence

  • Do you have to go to market, too?unknown
  • In his lengthy career, he had never seen the market so high.unknown
  • At the market, the farmer is selling his farmer's bread.masya
  • If there existed a market for sentences, our grammatical speculations would suddenly make sense.sacredceltic
  • Come on, let's go to the market together.FeuDRenais2
  • Though realistically the stock market is risky, it can still be worth investing in.Objectivesea
  • Sometimes the stock market goes up, and sometimes it goes down.Hybrid
  • At the market we bought peaches, artichokes, courgettes, strawberries and aubergines.sundown

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of market

as a noun

plural
markets

as a verb

past tense
marketed
present participle
marketing
third-person singular
markets