Market
Market , noun
[Akin to Dutch markt, Old High German markāt, merkāt, German markt; all fromL. mercatus trade, market place, from mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain, acquire: compare French marché. See Merit, and compare Merchant, Mart.]
1.
A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market.
He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares
At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.
Three women and a goose make a market.
2.
A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.
3.
An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market.
There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.
4.
Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
5.
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed?
6.
(Eng. Law) The privilege granted to a town of having a public market.
7.
A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market.
Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like.
Collocations (7)
Market beater , a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Market bell , a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. [English] — Shakespeare
Market cross , a cross set up where a market is held. — Shakespeare
Market garden , a garden in which vegetables are raised for market.
Market gardening , the raising of vegetables for market.
Market place , an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held.
Market town , a town that has the privilege of a stated public market.
Market , intransitive verb
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Market , transitive verb
To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmers have marketed their crops.
Industrious merchants meet, and market there
The world's collected wealth.