market
(mɑːʳkɪt )
Word forms: markets , marketing , marketed
1. countable noun A2
A market is a place where goods are bought and sold, usually outdoors.
He sold boots on a market stall.
2. countable noun [usually singular] [Also + in]
The market for a particular type of thing is the number of people who want to buy it, or the area of the world in which it is sold. [business]
The foreign market was increasingly crucial.
...the Russian market for personal computers. [+ for]
But there is no youth market in cars.
3. singular noun B2
The market refers to the total amount of a product that is sold each year, especially when you are talking about the competition between the companies who sell that product. [business]
The two big companies control 72% of the market.
Synonyms: trade, business, dealing, commerce
4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If you talk about a market economy, or the market price of something, you are referring to an economic system in which the prices of things depend on how many are available and how many people want to buy them, rather than prices being fixed by governments. [business]
Their ultimate aim was a market economy for Hungary.
He must sell the house for the current market value.
...the market price of cocoa.
5. verb
To market a product means to organize its sale, by deciding on its price, where it should be sold, and how it should be advertised. [business]
...if you marketed our music the way you market pop music. [VERB noun]
They have been marketed largely to buyers in America. [VERB noun]
...if a soap is marketed as an anti-acne product. [be VERB-ed + as]
Synonyms: sell, promote, retail, peddle
6. singular noun
The job market or the labour market refers to the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do. [business]
Every year, 250,000 people enter the job market.
...the changes in the labour market during the 1980s.
7. singular noun
The stock market is sometimes referred to as the market. [business]
The market collapsed last October.
8. See also black market, market forces, open market
9. a buyer's/seller's market phrase
If you say that it is a buyer's market, you mean that it is a good time to buy a particular thing, because there is a lot of it available, so its price is low. If you say that it is a seller's market, you mean that very little of it is available, so its price is high. [business]
Don't be afraid to haggle: for the moment, it's a buyer's market.
Housing became a seller's market, and prices zoomed up.
10. in the market for something phrase
If you are in the market for something, you are interested in buying it.
If you're in the market for a new radio, you'll see that the latest models are very different.
11. on the market phrase B2
If something is on the market, it is available for people to buy. If it comes onto the market, it becomes available for people to buy. [business]
...putting more empty offices on the market.
...new medicines that have just come onto the market.
Synonyms: on offer, on sale, up for sale
12. to price yourself out of the market phrase
If you price yourself out of the market, you try to sell goods or services at a higher price than other people, with the result that no one buys them from you. [business]
At £150,000 for a season, he really is pricing himself out of the market.
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Idioms:
in the market for something
interested in buying or getting something
If you're in the market for expensive skin care products, the following list includes some of the most well known.
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Collocations:
market a product market a service market profit market sector market stall market turmoil market uncertainty mortgage market oil market open-air market overall market overseas market potential market produce market trading market
It's the best way to market the product.
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If you close the cash account early you lose 90 days' interest and there are no early withdrawals from the stock market product.
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Before you market any product you conduct market research, in this case to establish what the employers in your industry — your target market — are looking for.
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Companies are not required to have a licence unless they market the product as a smoking cessation device.
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He said he could not know how long it will take to market a product.
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The money raised will be used to market the service and expand overseas.
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The companies will invest $150 million each to market the service and for product development, technology and employee training.
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In 2013, the company announced that they would market their service directly to consumers.
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She could not market her services as a solicitor to anyone other than the limited liability partnership and was an integral part of their business.
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Rather than marketing their services, credit card companies seem to be marketing debt itself.
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Essentially, vegetarianism became a radical response to a consumer-based pseudo-culture driven primarily by commercialization and market profit.
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But when a deal goes wrong, the losses can wipe out a substantial portion of a bank's annual capital markets profits, bankers said.
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In a legalised and regulated market profits can be capped.
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However, capital markets profits can be volatile.
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After deducting production costs and location-specific transport costs, however, nothing more remains of the market profits.
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Among the fastest-growing products in this 600 million-plus market sector are 'on-the-go' hand sanitisers.
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The company said pay rates varied according to 'profitability, affordability and comparative market sector data'.
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The frontier market sector remains small - emerging market funds hold 275bn - indicating greater potential for growth.
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He or she will start to focus on a specific market sector or competence.
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The poorly educated are a declining market sector.
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Help you give over the weekend to a friend on a market stall proves you could run a business together.
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His double had to jump off a balcony into a market stall - and land on the veggie patch.
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He should be running a market stall or a hedge fund.
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The full amount will buy trousers for his clothes business, rent a market stall and pay the municipal licence.
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Don't try to get away with something that cost a tenner from a market stall.
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Pharmaceutical companies are traditionally seen as safe havens in times of market turmoil.
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You might think that the dot-com collapse and the market turmoil of the past five years would have sent trustees flying towards fixed-interest havens.
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As a so-called value investor, seeking good quality stocks at cheap prices, he views the current market turmoil as an opportunity, not a threat.
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Some of his investments were 'simply crushed' in the market turmoil, he has told his investors.
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City bonuses that looked in the bag just six weeks ago are starting to evaporate as the securities market turmoil takes its toll.
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The price of precious metals has soared as investors have sought 'hard' assets during market uncertainty, and many predict it will rise further.
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With market uncertainty likely to remain, experts suggest holding defensive firms that provide goods and services consumers continue to buy, even in a recession.
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With household disposable income expected to be squeezed further by rising unemployment and housing market uncertainty, some chains won't be able to cling on.
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He said the bidders were adamant they could fund a deal but the market uncertainty had made it difficult for them to secure credit committee approval.
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Supporting that view are developments that promise to remove some of the market uncertainty.
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It said profit margins might rise in the intensely competitive mortgage market in the second half of the year.
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What do you think will happen in the mortgage market this year?
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The moves follow six months of gloom in the mortgage market in which rates have seemed to go up weekly.
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All corners of the mortgage market are awash with rate changes and launches.
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Record low interest rates and fierce competition in the mortgage market will also keep a lid on profits.
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With the oil market in disarray, now may not be the ideal time for an oil services company to change leadership.
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As the kingpin of the global oil market, his carefully chosen words can move markets in seconds.
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An exit of speculative money from the oil market by big hedge funds and investment banks compounded the decline.
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The oil market has been tight in the past decade for two reasons.
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Financial sort-of-good news in the past week has been matched by similar cautious encouragement from the oil market.
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During the drive we stop off at an open-air market in a beautiful town.
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Diamond merchants – also known as “diamantaires” – openly do business on the sidewalk, negotiating terms for bundles of gemstones as if they were fruit in an open-air market.
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Her flatmates also appeared in separate articles about selling ponchos in the local open-air market (these were, in fact, tablecloths with a hole cut in the middle).
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One idea was to turn it into an open-air market.
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Street vendors had turned the shopping areas into an open-air market.
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The overall market was weak — 16 per cent down — and we underperformed the games market.
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He warned that on current trends the overall market for newspaper advertising could fall 'by double digits - 12 to 15 per cent - during 2009'.
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The 5.4 per cent drop in sales, adjusted for currency, compared with a more modest 3 per cent decline in the overall market.
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They account for only about 8% of the overall market, but that 8% has materialised from nowhere in less than a decade.
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Ale's share of the overall market has increased for the first time in generations.
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Producers said that the move would help them to rebuild gradually their multimillion-pound overseas market.
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Slowly but surely he cracked the overseas market, by force of his spectacular stage shows and mega-star self-marketing.
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He admits he had one eye on the overseas market when he made them.
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But increasing numbers of institutions are investing in distance learning, not least to harness the lucrative overseas market.
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They can provide overseas market research, use of embassy facilities and alert firms to business opportunities.
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The first step, he said, was to find out everything you could about the potential market.
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Towards the end of yesterday's session some of the more energetic traders began to look ahead to next week''s potential market movers.
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And that, in turn, shuts down a segment of the bankers’ potential market.
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Yell said that its shift to digital would expand its potential market to 280 billion by 2015 from 28 billion today.
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Jaguar knows this approach will limit the potential market for the car - but that's all part of the plan.
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In the past 20 years supermarkets have grown to dominate the fresh produce market - less than 20 per cent of us buy it anywhere else.
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There will also be a produce market and plant stalls.
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This active town twinning began in 1991 and there are regular events, such as a produce market from each of the other countries and festivals.
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A small community area consisting of a library, post office, and produce market serve as an anchor for the surrounding community.
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The supermarkets in the mall house a huge fresh produce market measuring 25,000 sq metres, with stalls for fish, meat, fruit and vegetables.
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Many of the largest steel manufacturers are understood to be unhappy about moves to create a steel trading market because that would limit their power to dictate prices.
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Government-owned corporations have the advantage of issuing separate securities, such as bonds, in the trading market to obtain capital.
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It also has a good trading market in cotton industry.
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The volume of futures trading fell by 98% and the options trading market disappeared.
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He suggests that secure virtual trading markets could be established using specialist software.
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Translations:
Chinese: 市场
Japanese: 市場
- sound of thunder
- sound of traffic
- sound out
- sound policy
- sound principle
- soundproof
- sound-proof
- soundproof booth
- soundproofing
- sound pulse
- sound quality
- sound reason
- sound resonates
- sound stage
- sound-stage
- soundstage
- sound system
- sound technician
- sound the death knell
- soundtrack
- sound track
- soundtrack album
- soundtrack features
- sound vibration
- sound wave