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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024mar•ket /ˈmɑrkɪt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a place where buyers and sellers meet for the sale of goods:We went to the market for vegetables.
- a store for selling food:Go to the market for milk.
- a meeting of people for buying and selling:a market day.
- Businesstrade in a particular product:the cotton market.
- Businessdemand for an item or a product:The health-food market is expanding.
- Businessa region in which goods and services are bought or used:the foreign market.
- Business[usually: the + ~] stock market.
v. - to buy provisions for the home:[no object]They were out marketing when their house was robbed.
- to offer in a market for sale;
to sell:[~ + object]Can they market their computers as being better than the competition?
Idioms- Idioms in the market for, interested in buying:He's in the market for a good used car.
- Idioms on the market, for sale;
available:How long has their house been on the market?
mar•ket•a•ble, adj. mar•ket•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mar•ket (mär′kit),USA pronunciation n. - an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods;
a marketplace:a farmers' market. - a store for the sale of food:a meat market.
- a meeting of people for selling and buying.
- the assemblage of people at such a meeting.
- Businesstrade or traffic, esp. as regards a particular commodity:the market in cotton.
- Businessa body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity:the cotton market.
- Businessthe field of trade or business:the best shoes in the market.
- Businessdemand for a commodity:an unprecedented market for leather.
- Businessa body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services:the health-food market.
- Businessa region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used:the foreign market; the New England market.
- Businesscurrent price or value:a rising market for shoes.
- BusinessSee stock market.
- Businessat the market, at the prevailing price in the open market.
- Idioms, Businessin the market for, ready to buy;
interested in buying:I'm in the market for a new car. - Idioms, Businesson the market, for sale;
available:Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week.
v.i. - to buy or sell in a market;
deal. - to buy food and provisions for the home.
v.t. - to carry or send to market for disposal:to market produce every week.
- to dispose of in a market;
sell.
- Vulgar Latin *marcātus, Latin mercātus trading, traffic, market
- Middle English, late Old English 1100–1150
- 19.See corresponding entry in Unabridged vend, merchandise, peddle.
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