Definition of market

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mar·ket    (märkt) KEY 

NOUN:

1. A public gathering held for buying and selling merchandise.
2. A place where goods are offered for sale.
3. A store or shop that sells a particular type of merchandise: a vegetable market.
4. 1. The business of buying and selling a specified commodity: the soybean market.
   2. A market price.
   3. A geographic region considered as a place for sales: grain for the foreign market; the West Coast market.
   4. A subdivision of a population considered as buyers: cosmetics for the upscale market.
5. The opportunity to buy or sell; extent of demand for merchandise: a big market for gourmet foods.
6. 1. An exchange for buying and selling stocks or commodities: securities sold on the New York market.
   2. The entire enterprise of buying and selling commodities and securities: The market has been slow recently.

VERB:
mar·ket·ed, mar·ket·ing, mar·kets
VERB:
tr.

1. To offer for sale.
2. To sell.

VERB:
intr.

1. To deal in a market.
2. To buy household supplies: We marketed for a special Sunday dinner.

IDIOMS:
in the market

Interested in buying: We are in the market for a used car.

on the market

1. Available for buying: Many kinds of seasonal flowers are on the market.
2. Up for sale: They put the family business on the market.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old North French, from Vulgar Latin *marctus, from Latin merctus, from past participle of mercr, to buy, from merx, merc-, merchandise