market spacen.
/ˈmɑːkɪt speɪs/, U.S. /ˈmɑrkət ˌspeɪs/ 1. = marketplace n. 1.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place
cheapc1000
cheaping-placec1175
cheaping?c1225
marketc1275
marketstead1373
marketplace1389
market set1552
trona1572
cross1577
vent1580
mart1593
emptory1656
market space1800
market stance1864
sale-market1883
1800 New Baltimore Directory & Ann. Reg. 1800–1 8 Market Space, north and south, between the Falls and Frederick street.
1850 Times 12 July 8/3 There were four or five acres of ground unoccupied and not included in the strict market space of their plan.
1897 Science 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.
1944 R. 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.
1994 Afr. Affairs 93 491 We were conducted to the market-space in the central town.
2. Business and Economics.
a. A portion of a market available to, or secured or targeted by, a particular company or product; a niche.
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society > trade and finance > [noun] > highly specialized trade or market
segment1956
niche1963
market space1966
market niche1975
niche market1978
1966 Times 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.
1985 H. 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.
2002 Wasafiri 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.
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1994 Harvard 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.
1998 Industry Standard 11 May 41/1 The exponentially falling cost of transactions in the emerging digital ‘marketspace’.
2002 P. 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.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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