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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Market \Mar"ket\, n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. mark[=a]t, merk[=a]t, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade market place fr mercari, p. p. mercatus to trade traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain, acquire: cf F. march['e]. See {Merit}, and cf {Merchant}, {Mart}.] 1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as a market is held in the town every week. He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. --Shak. Three women and a goose make a market. --Old Saying. 2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold. There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool. --John v. 2. 3. An opportunity for selling anything demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods. There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market. --J. S. Mill. 4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as a dull market; a slow market. 5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? --Shak. 6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as market basket, market day market folk, market house, marketman market place market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like {Market beater}, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Market bell}, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] --Shak. {Market cross}, a cross set up where a market is held. --Shak. {Market garden}, a garden in which vegetables are raised for market. {Market gardening}, the raising of vegetables for market. {Market place}, an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held. {Market town}, a town that has the privilege of a stated public market. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Market \Mar"ket\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Marketed}; p. pr & vb n. {Marketing}.] To deal in a market; to buy or sell to make bargains for provisions or goods. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Market \Mar"ket\, v. t. To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in to sell in a market, and in an extended sense to sell in any manner; as most of the farmes have marketed their crops. Industrious merchants meet and market there The world's collected wealth. --Southey. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: market n 1: 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" [syn: {marketplace}] 2: the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustates the small investor" [syn: {securities industry}] 3: the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it" 4: a store where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market" [syn: {grocery store}, {grocery}] v 1: have or produce for sale 2: deal in a market 3: make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life" [syn: {commercialize}]
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