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The definition of a market is a place where you go to buy things or a demand for a particular item.

(noun)

An example of a market is a grocery store or a farmer's market where stands are set up and fruits and vegetables are sold.
An example of a market is the demand for computers.

To market is defined as to promote something for sale.

(verb)

An example of market is when you create a commercial for a product you are trying to sell.

See market in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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
an open space or a building where goods are shown for sale, usually with stalls or booths for the various dealers
a store or shop for the sale of provisions: a meat market
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
stock market
opportunity to sell, or demand (for goods or services): a good market for new products
opportunity to buy, or supply (of goods or services): reduced labor market
1. market price
2. market value

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

transitive verb

to send or take to market
to offer for sale
to sell

intransitive verb

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

Related Forms:

marketeer noun
marketer noun

See market in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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