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market Definition

mar·ket (mär′kit)

noun

    1. a gathering of people for buying and selling things, esp. provisions or livestock
    2. the people gathered
    3. the time of such a gathering
  2. an open space or a building where goods are shown for sale, usually with stalls or booths for the various dealers
  3. a store or shop for the sale of provisions a meat market
  4. a region in which goods can be bought and sold the Asian market
    1. buying and selling; trade in goods, stocks, etc. an active market
    2. trade in a specified commodity the wheat market
    3. a place where such trade is carried on
    4. the group of people associated in such trade
  6. stock market
  7. opportunity to sell, or demand (for goods or services) a good market for new products
  8. opportunity to buy, or supply (of goods or services) reduced labor market
    1. market price
    2. market value

Etymology: ME < NormFr < L mercatus, trade, marketplace, pp. of mercari, to trade < merx (gen. mercis), wares, merchandise < ? IE base *mer-, to seize

transitive verb

  1. to send or take to market
  2. to offer for sale
  3. to sell

intransitive verb

  1. to deal in a market; buy or sell
  2. to buy provisions for the home

market Related Forms
mar′·ket·eer′ (-kə tir′) noun mar′·keter noun
market Idioms

be in the market for

to be seeking to buy

be on the market

to be offered for sale

put on the market

to offer for sale

market Synonyms

market

n.

  1. A place devoted to sale

    store, grocery store, trading post, mart, shopping mall, shopper's square, emporium, exchange, city market, public market, farmer's market, supermarket, green-grocer's, meat market, fish market, curb market, open-air market, flea market, fair, dime store, drug store, department store, variety store, general store, bazaar, stall, booth, warehouse, business, delicatessen; see also shop, store 1.

  2. Stock market

    stock exchange, exchange, bourse, Bourse, commodities exchange, Dow-Jones, the Dow, Nikkei, syndicate.

  3. The state of trade

    supply and demand, sale, run; see business 1, 5, demand 2.

be in the market (for)

want to buy, be willing to purchase, need; see want 1.

on the market

salable, ready for purchase, available; see for sale at sale.

market Synonyms

market

v.

vend, exchange, barter; see sell 1.

market Usage Examples

Possessives

  • farmer: Once a month a farmer's market is still held here.

Converse of object

  • emerge: Also, care should be taken that certification systems do not create new barriers for the emerging biomass markets.
  • enter: In the autumn Goldfish entered the personal loan market, focusing initially on generating a high quality applicant pool.
  • dominate: You guessed it, taking over Iraq, getting America's oil buddies to take over Iraqi oil and dominate the international oil market.

Adjective modifier

  • competitive: Reviews In an increasingly competitive business market, building customer relationships can differentiate your business from the pack.
  • global: Great shares at bargain prices now litter the global markets.
  • European: There needed to be an existing European internal market for real cooperation to occur, he suggested.
  • financial: How might the financial markets react to the notion that a third of Imperial's exports are illegal.
  • domestic: On John Battle's test, opening the domestic energy market has not been a success.

Modifies a noun

  • town: Hexham was voted England's favorite market town in 2005 by Country Life Magazine.
  • leader: DMC are one of the market leaders in DJ Disks.
  • share: Penguin's market share remained steady overall in a market that showed only modest growth in the period.
  • stall: A market stall is provided and the rest, from stall decoration to promotion, is organized by the students themselves.
  • economy: It provides a comparative up-to-date account critically assessing the transition from central planning to a free market economy.

Noun used with modifier

  • labor: They key point is that women filled the gaps in the labor market.
  • stock: You can put part of your money on the stock market to increase the capital.
  • housing: We are the leaders in the pet housing market.
  • niche: The small or niche market has been responsible for many people making a nice profit from the Internet.
  • export: A country's success in ETS export markets can also be measured in jobs created.
  • capital: The estate is three miles from the Boro and the capital corn market and daily communications by coach and post with London.
market Quotes

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

—Zeldin,Theodore

If you can take $20,000 in one-hundred-dollar bills and walk up on a windy hill and tear themup and watchthem blowaway, and it doesn't bother you, thenyoushould go into the commodities market.

—Tyson, Don(ald) John

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

—Ricardo, David

We know the war prepared On every peaceful home, We know the hells declared For such as serve not Rome, The terror, threats and dread In market, hearth and field: We know when all is said We perish if we yield.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of a deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Grace isgiven of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

The elitist attitude is basically suspicious of, and hostile to, themarket precisely becausethemarket issovulgarly democraticöone dollar, one vote.

—Krasna, Norman

There is no way in which one can buck the market.

—Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

Privatization must come after the liberalization of prices† How on earth can you privatize or denationalize anything if you have no means of assessing the value of assets before offering them on the market?

—Pavlov,Valentin Sergeyevich

The price that the market sets on the services of our resources is similarlyaffected bya bewildering mixture of chance and choice. Frank Sinatra's voice was highly valued intwentieth-century United States.Would it have been highly valued in twentieth-century India, if he had happened to be born and to live there?

—Friedman, Milton

Commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement.Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

—Samuelson, Paul Anthony

We are only beginning to understand on how subtle a communication system the functioning of an advanced industrial society is basedöa communications system which we call the market and which turns out to be a more efficient mechanism for digesting dispersed information than any that man has deliberately designed.

—Hayek, Friedrich August von

You can't beat the market because it's smarter than you are. Intellectually, the only task is trying to determine what the market is telling you.

—Bartley, Robert Leroy