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market space, n.
Brit. |ˈmɑːkɪt speɪs|, U.S. |ˈmɑrkət ˌspeɪs|
[‹ market n. + space n.1]
1. = marketplace n. 1.
1800New Baltimore Directory & Ann. Reg. 1800–1 8 Market Space, north and south, between the Falls and Frederick street. 1850Times 12 July 8/3 There were four or five acres of ground unoccupied and not included in the strict market space of their plan. 1897Science 26 Nov. 792/1 A city ordinance..prescribed that manure deposited by householders on the market space must not be allowed to remain longer than 14 days. 1944R. G. Albion in H. F. Williamson Growth Amer. Econ. 193 In 1656 a market space was set aside and a weekly market was instituted by the Governor. 1994Afr. Affairs 93 491 We were conducted to the market-space in the central town.
2. Business and Econ.
a. A portion of a market available to, or secured or targeted by, a particular company or product; a niche.
1966Times 28 July 21/2 Guaranteeing us free access to the market space due us and avoiding invasion of such space by uncontrolled, omnipotent and thus overwhelming competition. 1985H. G. Vatter U.S. Econ. in World War II 66 This peacetime intermediate-period recovery was..running parallel with the long run contraction of the small manufacturer's market space. 2002Wasafiri Spring 57/2 The preoccupations of diaspora writing are inflated to occupy the whole of the available market space of writing from India.
b. Usually as one word. Electronic media, esp. the Internet, as a medium for commercial activity. Cf. cyberspace n.
1994Harvard Business Rev. 72 142/1 The traditional marketplace interaction between physical seller and physical buyer has been eliminated. In fact, everything about this new kind of transaction—what we call a marketspace transaction is different. 1998Industry Standard 11 May 41/1 The exponentially falling cost of transactions in the emerging digital ‘marketspace’. 2002P. Kotler et al. Marketing Moves i. 6 No companies expect marketspace to disappear. Indeed established companies are embracing the opposite view, that they are in the best position to leverage the Internet. |