name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
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Synonyms: mart, fair
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noun
A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
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Synonyms: marketplace, bazaar, arcade
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noun
Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
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noun
A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
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Synonyms: sale
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noun
A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
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noun
A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
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noun
The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
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noun
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
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verb
To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
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verb
To promote for or as if for sale.
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verb
To sell.
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verb
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
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verb
To shop in a market; to attend a market.
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noun
the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: marketplace, market place
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Broader terms: activity
Narrower terms: black market, buyer's market, buyers' market, soft market, grey market, gray market, seller's market, sellers' market, labor market, monopoly, monopsony, oligopoly
noun
a marketplace where groceries are sold
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Synonyms: grocery store, grocery, food market
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Broader terms: marketplace, market place, mart, market
Narrower terms: greengrocery, supermarket
noun
an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
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Synonyms: marketplace, market place, mart
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Broader terms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet
Narrower terms: agora, public square, bazaar, bazar, grocery store, grocery, food market, market, open-air market, open-air marketplace, market square, slave market
noun
the securities markets in the aggregate
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Synonyms: securities industry
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Broader terms: industry
Narrower terms: bear market, bull market, the City, Wall Street, the Street, money market
noun
the customers for a particular product or service
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Broader terms: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
Narrower terms: black market
verb
make commercial
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Synonyms: commercialize, commercialise
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Broader terms: change, alter, modify
verb
engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
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Broader terms: trade, merchandise
Narrower terms: offer
verb
deal in a market
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Broader terms: deal, sell, trade
verb
buy household supplies
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Broader terms: shop
History
Topographic surname for someone who lived by a market.
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).
Across languages
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