marketeer

Variant of market

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
  1. an open space or a building where goods are shown for sale, usually with stalls or booths for the various dealers
  2. a store or shop for the sale of provisions: a meat market
  3. 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
  4. stock market
  5. opportunity to sell, or demand (for goods or services): a good market for new products
  6. 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

  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

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