Definition of "market"

market

/ˈmɑːkɪt/

noun
plural markets
1. A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
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  The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
  1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action
2. City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
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  ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’
  1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎
  The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
  2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
3. A grocery store
4. A group of potential customers for one's product.
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  There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.
  1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]
5. A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
6. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
  Quotations
  As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.
  1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20
  If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
  2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878
7. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
8. (obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
  Quotations
  What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iv]
verb
third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed
1. (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
2. (transitive) To sell.
3. (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
4. (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
  Quotations
  We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.
  1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 201

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