market

Meaning

1. A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
2. City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
3. A grocery store
4. A group of potential customers for one's product.
5. A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
6. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
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.

marketplace

bazaar

sales activity

bazar

market-place

open space

food market

put on sale

securities industry

ditribute

peomote

animal market

business field

offer for sell

stall shopping center

relating to traffic

farmer’s market

open-air marketplace

marketing outlet

morning bazzar

annual fair

purvey

become popular

Frequency

Hyphenated as

mar‧ket

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɑːkɪt/

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); both ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.