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marketn. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Immediate origin uncertain; either < a borrowing < post-classical Latin in another Germanic language (compare Old Frisian markad , merked , Middle Dutch market , marct , mart market ( > mart n.3; Dutch markt ), Old Saxon markat marketplace (Middle Low German market , markt , merkt ), Old High German marcāt , merkāt (Middle High German market , markt , mart , German Markt market), Old Icelandic markaðr , marknaðr , Old Swedish marknaþer (Swedish marknad , Swedish regional markad ), Danish marked ); or < an Old French regional form (although all attested later: compare Old French (Picardy) markiet , marquié (13th cent.), marquet (c1330), Old French (Walloon) markiet (1280), Old French (Flanders) merquiet (13th cent.) all in sense ‘market’); or directly < (their etymon) post-classical Latin mercatum , marcatum market (c795, 845; a1086, 1088 in British sources) < classical Latin mercātus market, fair < mercārī to buy, to trade ( < merc- , merx commodity (compare Oscan amiricum , amiricatud ; origin uncertain)) + -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. The word was borrowed into continental Germanic at a considerably earlier date than its first appearance in Old English (in Old High German by the 8th cent.; in Old Saxon by the 10th cent.). Old English market is late and uncommon (not recorded before the early 12th cent. (although compare quot. 1334-5 at sense 2), and not forming place names until the 13th cent.); however, the compound gēarmarket annual market, is recorded once in a late12th-cent. copy of a charter of 1053–5 (probably authentic and drawn up shortly after 1055) (compare Middle Dutch jaermarket, Old Saxon jārmarkat, Old High German jārmarcāt, jārmercat (Middle High German jārmarket ( > Polish jarmark (1408), Russian jarmarka (1648)), German Jahrmarkt)) supports the thesis that the simplex was borrowed into Old English from another Germanic language. Anglo-Norman forms of the word with -k- (as opposed to -ch-) are not attested until the late 14th cent., and may be the result of English influence; if the word is a direct borrowing < French (or from Latin), it represents the only word in modern English where the ending -et ( < classical Latin -āt-) has survived unchanged (see further N. Davis in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1952) 47 152–5).Other Romance derivatives are Anglo-Norman marché , marchié , merché , merchet market, Old French marched (c980), marchié (late 12th cent.), marchiet (c1200) agreement, market, assembly (French marché market, bargain), Old Occitan mercat (c1100), Catalan mercat (c1182), Spanish mercado (1220–50), Portuguese mercado (1162), Italian mercato (1211). Celtic derivatives directly < Latin are Old and Middle Breton marchat (Breton marc'had ), and Cornish marghas (at least as early as the 13th cent., as in the place name Marghasbigan , now Marazion ); Early Irish marcad bargain, market, is a borrowing from early Scandinavian (as is Finnish markkina market). A number of compounds (see Compounds 1) have parallels or models in other Germanic languages, e.g.: Dutch marktschreeuwer , German regional (Low German) Markschrijer , German Marktschreier market-crier (compare also Marktrufer , usually derogatory, ‘cheapjack, charlatan’); Middle Dutch marctgelt (Dutch marktgeld ; compare also Middle French marck gelt (1583, in a text from Flanders)), German Marktgeld market-dues; Dutch markthal , German Markthalle market-hall; Middle Dutch marctmeester (Dutch marktmeester ), Middle Low German marketmeyster , Middle High German marketmeister (German Marktmeister : compare also Marktherr ) market master; Old Frisian merkedfretho , Middle Dutch marctvrēde , Middle Low German marketvrēde , German Marktfriede market-peace; Middle Low German marketpenninge , German Marktpfennig market-penny; Middle Dutch marctliede , Middle Low German marketlǖde , German Marktleute market-people; Middle Dutch marcttolle , Middle Low German markettol , Middle High German marketzol (German Marktzoll ) market-toll; Dutch marktvrouw , German Marktfrau market-woman. With the sense development compare earlier cheap n.1 I. A place at which trade is conducted. 1. society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market day > busiest time lOE (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 963 Ic wille þæt markete beo in þe selue tun. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1125 Se man ðe hafde an pund he ne mihte cysten ænne peni at anne market. a1300 (c1275) (1991) 331 Ðis wirm bitokneð ðe man ðat oðer biswikeð..in mot er in market. 1340 (1866) 23 Ydeleblisse is þe dyeules peni, huermide he bayþ alle þe uayre pane-worþes ine the markatte of þise wordle. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif (1880) 172 (MED) Prestis..bien schep & neet & sellen hem for wynnynge, & beten marketis [etc.]. 1480 W. Caxton ccvi. 187 He lete crye thurgh his patent in euery faire and in euery markete of Englond. 1519 in J. Imrie et al. (1960) 53 Jhone Davidsone said he boucht..[the horse] in plane mercat fra Jhone Oliver. 1563 in W. H. Turner (1880) 306 Everye Satterdaye..there shalbe a commen markett for..cattell. 1564 in J. H. Burton (1877) 1st Ser. I. 280 To by or sell any maner of tymmer, greit or small, bot in oppin and plane marcattis. c1580 ( tr. (1929) IV. ii. 9493 Ane sair marcat thair was sene Of coit-armouris bricht and shene Reuin and rent. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. v. 61 Thanke heauen, fasting, for a good mans loue;..Sell when you can, you are not for all markets . View more context for this quotation 1660 No. 213. 1042 It was so contrived by some Body, that at high Market, Proclamation was made, that on this day being 23. instant, a County-court would be holden in this Town. 1691 A. D'Anvers 7 Many a time they're brought a pick-pack, Like Geese to Market. 1732 in (1939) 282 A mixt cargoe which is all sold at markett for marchantable fish. 1775 S. J. Pratt (1783) II. xlviii. 67 There [i.e. at Smithfield] it is high market. 1820 W. Hazlitt 264 The coarse, heavy, dirty, unwieldy bullion of books, is driven out of the market of learning. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. ii. iii. 69 My mother had coaxed Mr Caxton to walk with her to market. 1899 Jan. 45/2 A rendezvous..where a market was opened for the Indians in the vicinity. 1917 S. Leacock xiv. 237 What amazes me is, in returning to the city, to find the enormous quantities of produce of all sorts offered for sale in the markets. 1960 C. Day Lewis ii. 37 The rest of the flat cart was filled with hens for the market. 1985 F. Jefkins (ed. 2) i. 5 Markets tended to deal with products brought in from the countryside, shops with goods made by tradesmen such as shoemakers, hatters and clothiers. 1546 J. Heywood i. xi. sig. Divv Men know (quoth I) I haue herde nowe and then, Howe the market gothe by the market men. 1583 B. Melbancke (new ed.) sig. D4 v I am content to learne of the market folks how the market goes. 1606 G. Chapman i. iv. 165 A man may know by the market-folks how the market goes. 1670 J. Ray 119 You may know by the market-folks, how the market goes. the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > judge wrongly [verb (intransitive)] > judge prematurely 1597 W. Shakespeare i. i. 160 But yet I run before my horse to market . View more context for this quotation the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of persons > in an undertaking 1600 sig. D2v My fa fa father has brought his ho ho hoges to a fa fa faire m m market. 1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher i. sig. B3 We haue Brought our eggs and muskadine to a faire market. 1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 5/1 in (1660) You have spun a fair threed, you have brought your hogs to a fair market. Spoken in derision when a business hath sped ill. 1725 8–15 Feb. 1/2 Certainly the Devil had brought himself as well as his Hogs to a fine Market, when he was thus expos'd to Sale in a Dram-Shop. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage I. ii. ix. 314 The schoolmaster..brought his eggs to a bad market. society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > be for sale 1639 G. Daniel x. 25 Such a Man would bring His Soule to Mercate. 1776 A. Smith I. i. vii. 68 When the quantity of any commodity which is brought to market falls short of the effectual demand. View more context for this quotation 1800 T. Jefferson Let. 4 Mar. in (1905) IX. 121 H. Marshal voting of course with them, as did, & frequently does Anderson, of Tennessee, who is perfectly at market. 1801 T. Jefferson Let. 24 Nov. in (1984) 1097 A very great extent of country, north of the Ohio,..is now at market. 1827 Oct. 411 It would cause a large quantity of land and other fixed property to be simultaneously brought to market, as would occasion a great loss to sellers. 1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. in (1881) II. 300 This is the good and this the evil of trade, that it would put everything into market. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ III. xxxix. 86 If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. 1886 R. A. A. Sherrin 90 The skate is not often brought to market, but is not scarce, and as a food fish has few superiors. 1893 R. L. Stevenson xiv. 156 These [sheep] being specially fed to market. the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of persons > in an undertaking 1812 39 23 When..they found they had been badly to market, they declared themselves off. the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] 1870 12 Nov. 13/4 He slackens the rein, and saying, ‘Go to market now old fellow’, sits the wild plunge of the colt like a Mexican vaquero. 1887 W. S. S. Tyrwhitt 127 ‘I say, are you going to ride Customer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘I expect he'll go to market, won't he?’ 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ I. xi. 168 If you hadn't come forward..the first time he propped, he mightn't have gone to market at all. ?a1927 F. S. Anthony (1936) 17 Peter came home drunk once every week, and made his poor wife milk the herd of twenty-four cows by herself; and then about 8 p.m. he'd arise from the sofa and go to market because the poor woman hadn't cooked a hot tea for him. 1947 P. Newton 153 Go to market, a horse bucking. 1950 F. J. Hardy 35 I have me instructions, so it's no use going to market on me. 1992 R. Park 206 Did I go to market! A fur coat! Where did he think I was going to wear a fur coat. society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right to hold market society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > right to hold market lOE (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 963 Ic gife þone tun þe man cleopað Vndela..& market & toll, swa freolice þæt ne king..ne haue þær nane hæse. 1334–5 ( Writ of Edward the Confessor, Ramsey (Sawyer 1109) in F. E. Harmer (1952) 259 Þæt..se abbod & þa gebroðra in to Ramesege habben þa socne on eallen þingen ofer heom & þæt market æt Dunham. 1464 V. 521/1 Mercates, Rentes, Services..to the seid Priory and Prebende perteynyng. 1607 J. Cowell sig. Vu1v/2 Market,..signifieth..also the liberty or priuiledge whereby a towne is enabled to keepe a market. 1804 W. Cruise III. 304 So, where a man has a market, to hold the Saturday, and he holds it another day, the market shall be forfeited. 3. society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place society > trade and finance > [noun] > an act of trading c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall (1920) I. 220 So ha kam into þe Marcatte so he fond werkmen þet were idel. 1340 (1866) 215 (MED) God nele naȝt þet me maki his hous marcat. c1400 (?a1300) (Laud) (1952) 1513 A temple was in þe markat of T[e]ruagaunt. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre (1913) 106 They began a bataile vpon the market. 1521 in J. W. Clay (1902) VI. 4 A howse in the marketh. 1587 A. Fleming et al. (new ed.) III. 1186/1 The tolboth in the market of Durham all of stone. 1656 A. Cowley Isaiah XXXIV in v Then shall the Market and the Pleading-place Be Choakt with Brambles and oregrown with grass. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu 10 Apr. (1965) I. 401 The Markets are most of them handsome Squares. 1764 T. Legg (ed. 3) 99 Lumberers taking a Survey of the Streets and Markets, and preparing to mount Bulks instead of Beds. 1828 M. R. Mitford III. 264 Trying the great market of Covent-garden for the sale of his live-stock. 1872 13 Apr. 470/1 This charitable lady decided on building a market. 1888 June 2/2 Cherries..should be avoided when..sold in city markets. 1911 Apr. 4/2 I have used inadequately filtered water, uninspected milk and shopped in markets where inspection of sanitary conditions was never dreamed of. 1967 ‘D. Shannon’ (1969) i. 19 She's pretty sure Mrs. Gerner usually shopped at the nearest market up on Marengo. 1995 M. Collins 166 One woman, a vendor who usually sold sive [sic] and thyme in the market, put in her two pence worth. c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss (1873) II. 205 (MED) Corn at corn market, bestes at the flessh mercatt. 1565 in J. D. Marwick (1882) IV. 208 The pudden mercat and beir mercatt to be remouit of the calsay and placeit in the flesche mercat placis. 1640 (1860) 61 To settill the said ky mercat. 1736 F. Drake i. vi. 219 Sea fish market is kept..for panniermen free of the city. 1852 N. Hawthorne iv. 30 The New England yeoman, if he have the misfortune to dwell within practicable distance of a wood-market, is as niggardly of each stick as if it were a bar of Californian gold. 1910 I. 967/1 The town possessed an iron-market early in the 14th century. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. 5101 He goth into the Market place of Rome.] a1400 (Laud) (1932) 925 (MED) Amydde þe market [v.r. merkett] of Rome, þe mette to-gedres. c1450 J. Capgrave (1910) 19 (MED) Victorine..a famous philisophr..had a statua rered to his liknesse in þe markette at Rome. c1485 ( G. Hay (2005) 60 Jn the fairest place of rome, jn myddis of the marcate. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Royal) iv. 2342 Quhen that it wes fyrst wp set Ewyn in to the myd merkete. c1550 (1979) xvii. 117 The gentil menand the comont pepil met them in there best array vitht solempnite, and syne conuoyit them to the plane mercat befor the capitol. II. Trade, business, and other extended uses. 5. society > trade and finance > [noun] society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > market-price 1340 (1866) 36 (MED) Huanne hy hise yzeþ poure and nyeduol, þanne makeþ hy mid ham marcat to do hire niedes. ?a1440 Hortus Vocab. in (1923) 45 274 (MED) Cupidinarius, markat that coueytyth pan[y]s. a1500 (?c1425) (1936) 34 (MED) Hauyng spyte that this market was thus lost fro hym, he [sc. Judas] yede hym to an-othur and sold his maister..for thritti pans. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart II. xxxviii. 116 Lytell and lytell we shall wynne the castells that these pyllers holde, though they departe nowe with a good market. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart II. xci. [lxxxvii.] 272 He hadde so good a markette as to escape alyue. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Luke xiv. 126 b I must..goe to proue them, whether I haue made a good mercate in bying of them or not. a1557 J. Cheke tr. (1843) xxii. 4 Yei..went yeer wais, sum to his own ground, sum to his mercat. 1599 i. 525 She must defer her market till to-morrow. a1627 T. Middleton (1630) ii. 25 2 Prom...I prethe looke what market she hath made. 1 Prom. Imprimis Sir, a good fat Loyne of Mutton. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. iv. 36 in II What Lick-finger? mine old host of Ram-Alley? You ha' some mercat here. 1635 in W. Andrews (1899) 135 The Session appoints some of the elders to go to the seaside at efternoon, to see that there be no mercat in herring. 1660 T. M. IV. 12 The Juncto..willing to make the best of a bad market, prepare for war. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius v. 68 And with Post-haste thy running Markets make, Be sure to turn the Penny. a1699 W. Temple Ess. Pop. Discontents in (1731) I. 257 Every Man speaks of the Fair as his own Market goes in it. 1720 D. Defoe 215 He got a quick Market; for in less than five Weeks, William sold all his Negroes, and at last sold the Ship it self. 1932 R. Macaulay i. vi. 38 Look, said I, the King must act forthwith. He must haste and make the best of a bad market. 1962 in (1965) at Mercat n. [Kirkcudbright]. society > trade and finance > [verb (intransitive)] the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be involved in or have to do with something society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain over [verb (transitive)] society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > exploit for gain 1340 [see sense 5a]. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 421 (MED) In his slepe he saȝe..Amon..in armes with his qwene, And make with hire market as [he] a man were. 1522 in J. B. Paul (1903) V. 203 That na Scottisman or woman intercommoun with Inglishmen nor mak marcat with thame. 1577 in J. H. Burton (1878) 1st Ser. II. 658 He..ressavit ane coip bill as ane marchand, gevand him licence to mak marcat in the cuntre. 1579 E. Spenser Sept. 37 They..maken a market [1579–91 mart] of their good name. 1594 T. Nashe sig. G4v God wot he was Petro Desperato, when I stepping to hir with a dunstable tale made vp my market. 1605 in J. D. Marwick (1876) I. 230 It is..ordainit..that it salbe leasum to owttintownis fleschouris ilk day in the oulk to mak markat of flesche in this towne. 1611 M. Smith in Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋17 It is a grieuous thing..to neglect a great faire, and to seeke to make markets afterwards. 1639 J. Clarke 237 He that meanes to make a good market of his ware, must watch an opportunity to open his shop. 1681 J. Dryden 16 The next for Interest sought t'..make their Jewish Markets of the Throne. 1713 R. Steele in 18 Mar. 1/2 With his ready Mony the Builder, Mason and Carpenter are enabled to make their Market of Gentlemen..who inconsiderately employ them. 1714 J. Gay iv. 121 I made my market long before 'twas night, My purse grew heavy, and my basket light. 1749 J. Cleland I. 136 A mother base enough to make a market of her own flesh and blood. 1797 E. Burke 170 Prussia..thinks of nothing but making a market of the present confusions. 1797 463 On Friday last, a young woman called at a shop, and asked the loan of 2s. to make out her market. 1833 B. Webster iii. ii. 64 He, as the marriage had been stolen and private.., made the lordly fool believe it a forged marriage,..and washed out the stain with the water of another word—he made a market of a mistress, not a wife. 1866 J. E. Brogden 124 I have made a good market of my corn. 1913 M. J. Cawein iii. 12 The sons of Greed, who make a market of lies. society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade illegally or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > trade in sordid or petty manner > in a way to ruin or spoil business 1529 J. Frith lx. sig. Ni He that sayeth it is better to geve our cherite to the poore..goth aboute to marre the Popes markette. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. ii. 17 in II Marre my market, thou too-proud Pedler?.. I pay for my ground, as well as thou dost. 1641 sig. F3 There was in him..an humor of travelling..which had not some wise man about him, laboured to remove..he would out of his owne native propruseion, marred his owne market. 1754 S. Foote ii. 45 I'll be even with them! I'll marr their Market! 1783 H. B. Dudley iv. ii. 66 I think I've marr'd his market, come what may. society > trade and finance > bargaining > bargain [verb (intransitive)] > improve one's bargain 1543 ( (1812) 366 The market he so mended manyfolde. 1601 A. Dent 106 So farre off are you from mending your market any whit thereby. 1679 J. Bunyan (ed. 3) 177 By becomin Religious, he may mend his market, perhaps get a rich wife, or more, and for better customers to his shop. 1709 S. Sewall 17 Feb. (1973) II. 615 Mr. Gerrish had courted Mr. Conney's daughter: and if she should have Mr. Stoddard, she would mend her market. society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > offering for sale 1604 W. Shakespeare iv. iv. 9 + 25 What is a man, If his chiefe good and market of his time Be but to sleepe and feede, a beast, no more. 1680 R. Morden (1685) 80 Some of them now grown Wealthy, by the Market of their Slaves,..wear Sables. society > trade and finance > [verb (intransitive)] > miss chance to trade 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas xv. 161 Elicia takes her leaue of Areusa, and would not be intreated to stay, because shee would not lose her market at home in her accustomed Lodging. a1650 D. Calderwood (1844) V. 204 Muche better is it to have abiddin a cannie mercat, nor to have hazarded an old gloyd. a1660 H. Hammond (1664) vi. 89 The Devil..knows the price and value of a Soul, and will pay any rate for it, rather than lose his market. 1692 J. Locke 11 He that wants a Vessel, rather than lose his Market, will not stick to have it at the Market Rate. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [noun] > of a woman a1699 J. Kirkton (1817) 373 She hade two daughters,..and for these she thought she might make a better mercat in Scotland than in England. 1768 O. Goldsmith i. 11 I have seen one of them fret an whole morning at her hair-dresser, when all the fault was her face... And yet I'll engage has carried that face at last to a very good market. 1787 W. Taylor 66 Whan Tib an' I 'ad made markeet, An' to the scuil in haste we gaed, An' gar'd John Dominie clark it. 1823 C. Lamb Mod. Gallantry in 183 When the phrases ‘antiquated virginity’, and such a one has ‘overstood her market’..shall raise immediate offence. a1869 R. Leighton (1875) ii. ii. 62 I could have said nothing; for, Margaret, you are getting into years, and must not lose your market. 1899 C. M. Thomson 131 Jess had drawn the blinders ower his een, and made her ain merkit. 6. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. L3v, in (rev. ed.) I hope you will have regard to the selling of these commodities to my best aduantage, wherein I pray you doe your best indeuour as the market serueth. 1647 N. Ward 7 They deale wisely that will stay till the Market is fallen. 1780 E. Burke 33 These lands at present would sell at a low market. 1800 W. Pitt in G. Rose (1860) I. 280 The market..has..fallen 7s. per quarter. 1886 T. Hardy I. xxiii. 302 Just when I sold the markets went lower, and I bought up the corn of those who had been holding back. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ (1891) 246 The cattle having ‘topped the market’, and sold extremely well. 1903 S. S. Pratt 100 If there are more offers than bids the market is weak and the price declines. 1928 H. Belloc v. 121 As a man may shuffle the shares of connected companies on a falling market. 1982 4 May 15/4 Our titles have outperformed the market. 1602 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Charteris) 3186 in (1931) II. 299 The markit raisit bene sa hie, That Prelats dochtours..Ar maryit with sic superfluities [etc.]. 1614 W. Raleigh Pref. sig. A4v For those Kings, which haue sold the bloud of others at a low rate; haue but made the Market for their owne enemies, to buy of theirs at the same price. 1650 J. Trapp (Deut. ix. 4) 96 We are all apt to..set a price upon our selves above the market. 1751 R. Paltock II. xxi. 270 For its all one to her with whom she [sc. a mistress] engages, so she can raise but the Market by a Change. 1888 9 Oct. 3/7 Copper has been a dull market, owing chiefly to buyers and sellers being widely apart. 1930 16 Aug. 10/4 These shares have been an active market in the past few weeks. 1964 31 Jan. 23/2 E. Scragg became a better market, rallying 2s to 71s. 1983 30 June 23/3 Shares of Beecham remained a weak market. 1987 13 Mar. 25/5 British Printing and Communication Corporation was a strong market climbing 17p to 348p. society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] 1615 E. Sharpe sig. E4 Surely it were too great pouerty for English mindes..to feare to speede woorse in any Market or place then they [sc. the Dutch]. 1752 D. Hume v. 88 We lost the French market for our woolen manufactures. 1791 W. Bartram 312 I have some men at work squaring Pine and Cypress timber for the West-Indian market. 1848 J. S. Mill iii. xxv. §3 To sell cheaper in the foreign market. 1885 Mar. 281 That coating of indigo and gypsum which imparts [to tea leaves] the bloom so highly prized in the European market. 1912 ‘R. Devereux’ ix. 165 In 1906 Algerian wine was introduced into the English market. 1964 12 Mar. 2/6 With the re-entry of Russia into the Singapore market sentiment has much improved. 1977 19 Dec. 54/1 From a cynical perspective Saturday Night Fever looks not so much like a movie as a merchandising assault on the youth market. 1993 103 1533 The focus continued to be on facilitating access to..markets—but now for services, legal persons and intangible assets as well as goods. 1999 2 Mar. 25/4 GEC..agreeing to shell out $2.1 billion (£1.3 billion) cash to break into the important American market. 8. society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [noun] > supply and demand or market 1651 No. 32 534 Rupert..and his Brother Maurice endeavoured to make sale of a rich Ship..but the Mercat not proving very quick, the owners of the Ship came thither and compounded for it. 1689 J. Evelyn Let. 12 Aug. in (1859) III. 306 They expect a quicker market. 1781 W. Cowper 522 'Tis called a Satire... Strange! how the frequent interjected dash Quickens a market, and helps off the trash. 1820 P. B. Shelley ii. 28 The failure of a foreign market for Sausages, bristles, and blood-puddings,..is but partial. 1848 J. S. Mill I. iii. ii. §4. 529 The extra quantity can only find a market, by calling forth an additional demand equal to itself. 1848 J. S. Mill I. iii. ii. §5. 531 Had they persisted in selling all that they produced, they must have forced a market by reducing the price. 1861 M. Pattison in Apr. 414 Such commodities, however,..found little market as yet. 1896 E. Thompson in Christmas No. 83 Stredza..has lived long enough to know that there is a market for treason. 1922 H. Crane 15 Aug. (1965) 97 ‘Pandora's Box’ is a good piece of ‘general’ criticism... I hope you find a good market for it. 1977 19 Mar. 9 a/4 He said the output would be sold in Europe, where the market for wood products is strong. 1983 M. Edwards iv. 71 It would effectively ruin our export business to the United States of America—our major sports car market. 1985 7 June 626/1 A market surely exists for an exoteric study of Wittgenstein's notoriously recondite ideas. 1999 July 88 When you rear buffalo, you must go out and find your market. This means hand-delivering milk to the dairy that processes it, and taking your own beasts to the abbatoir. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > specific operations 1870 W. W. Fowler i. 28 Their object being to elevate the price of stocks by owning a controlling interest and making a market price so that they can unload at a large advance on the price at which they bought.] 1899 6 Mar. 8/1 Amongst the points in company law reform..the next [question] will relate to the old abuse of making a market. 1941 14 376 They endeavour to interest jobbers in taking blocks of the shares on their books and, in this way, make a market in the issue. 1961 Dec. 99/2 A dealer who ‘makes a market’ in the stock is offering to buy some, for his own inventory, at 7½; and he has some stock on hand that he will sell at 8. 1997 52 667 A large relative tick size also encourages dealers to make a market in a stock. 9. society > trade and finance > [noun] > trade in a type of commodity society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale a1653 R. Filmer (1678) 38 The borrowers do trade by buying and selling in the Mercat at the same prices that the owners of money do. 1737 M. Jones Let. 22 July in (1750) 346 Perhaps 'twou'd be more adviseable to consume the precious Incense, as the Dutch do their Spices, than glut the Market. 1776 A. Smith I. i. xi. 265 There are commonly in the market only fourteen or fifteen ounces of silver for one ounce of gold. View more context for this quotation 1811 A. T. Thomson ii. 21 The real Socotrine aloes, which are now scarce in the market. 1846 27 May 2/7 It is a kind of concentrated gravy, the result of the boiling down of sheep and cattle for the supply of the English tallow market. 1880 L. C. Tees iv. 95 And when he is under the sod, I suppose you'll be looking out for somebody else, eh?.. If you do, remember I'm in the market. 1891 Nov. 320 The only type of air tyre on the market. 1909 R. Kaleski ii. 11 I try every axe on the market, but the only two I care to use are either Plumb's or the black Kelly. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland (ed. 2) ii. xii. 359 Japan with its Formosan production, still controls the market in camphor. 1964 31 Jan. 4/3 The development of a Sugar Market..the nature and frequency of whose price movements were unknown in living memory. 1967 2 Feb. 285/3 We shall soon have on the market the video-disc, about the size of a gramophone record and costing about 22 shillings. 1972 Oct. 62/3 This is a top quality instrument..in no way comparable with the cheaper types of air brush already offered on the model market. 1988 June 259 Since they produce identical goods the firm setting the lower price captures the entire market. society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [noun] > supply and demand or market > state of the market 1776 A. Smith I. i. x. 138 The trade of the grocer may be necessary for the conveniency of the inhabitants, and the narrowness of the market may not admit the employment of a larger capital in the business. View more context for this quotation 1804 74 404 Many of our novellists..complain of the dullness of the market at home. 1850 28 Dec. 4/5 Indigo: The market was dull and late rates were with difficulty supported. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ xxxiv. 450 If you force a sale on a dull market, I don't care what the property is, you are going to make a poor business of it. 1959 29 Mar. 3/3 The market in industrial equities had soared by the end of 1958 to an all-time peak. 1994 July 15/2 The Turkish art market was sluggish until the 1980s. society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade in (goods) illegally or immorally [verb (transitive)] > buy up (goods) for resale or monopoly 1804 H. T. Colebrooke (new ed.) v. 154 From this country [sc. India]..Europe was antiently supplied with it [sc. indigo], until the produce of America engrossed the market. 1872 J. Yeats 379 Edicts..against engrossing the market, i.e., buying up the stock of any commodity in order to sell it again at an enhanced price. 1904 39 187 Wealthy companies and large corporations..have the means..to exclude rivalry, monopolize business and engross the market. 1968 74 45 By invading established channels of legal distribution, the illicit trader was able to engross a large share of the market. society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > be for sale 1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley vi, in Apr. 371/2 Every imaginable species of property coming into the market. 1846 J. Lindley 216 Nees and Ebermaier say that it sometimes comes into the market under the name of Italian Sarsaparilla. 1883 W. Black I. v. 89 If ever Monaglen comes into the market, she'll snap it up. 1901 B. T. Washington viii. 128 About three months after the opening of the school,..there came into the market for sale an old and abandoned plantation. 1960 S. Unwin ii. xix. 337 When the American owner died, and the manuscript once again came into the market, Dr. Evans and a group of friends bought it. 1992 2 Jan. 1/4 This rare and delightful grade II listed town house has come onto the market, with offers invited in the region of £375,000. society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > be buyer of 1877 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xx, in 6 Jan. 23/1 You'd have had your money in your pocket now, and might have been in the market for some of these..store cattle. 1905 H. Rowland x. 105 He can't go about with a sign tacked on him, ‘Not in the Matrimonial Market’. 1936 L. C. Douglas x. 212 She was in the market for diversion. 1990 53/2 We..try to do a good job in telling people not only who is in the market, but what qualities they are seeking in their recruits. 1998 Mar. 41/2 If you're in the market for a new BMW, there's no way you could be happy with a Honda. 1975 (Industr. ed.) (Nexis) 14 July 92 d The 1974 annual report lists 10 new products..brought to market last year alone, and 10 more that are in advanced stages of development. 1985 7 Oct. 88/2 ‘Orphan drugs’—medicines that aren't used in sufficient quantities to justify the cost of bringing them to the market. 1991 Summer 18/3 Bell Atlantic is concentrating on the development of new products and services that can be brought to market quickly. 10. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares 1814 5 It establishes a price in the market. 1865 May 575/1 The artist is like the stock which is to be quoted at the board and thrown upon the market. 1895 30 Dec. 7/5 The market declined early on large receipts, but eventually improved, due to local operators covering. 1930 1 July 50/2 The market foreshadowed the decline which took place during the middle of the month when the base of May 5th was broken on the down side. 1970 10 Feb. 19/4 Analysts saw the advance as part of the market's ‘bottoming out’ pattern. 1988 24 Oct. i. 34/6 As the market should know by now, the Bank is shock-averse. Friday's 200 m Pounds..index-linked taplet demonstrates this. 1998 21 Feb. (Your Money section) 1/5 Buying the most popular shares in the markets..have been repeatedly shown to be a sure~fire route to long-term underperformance. 1880 35 The distinctions between classes of business on the Stock Exchange are known as ‘markets’, and each jobber is supposed to operate in his own market. 1887 XXII. 557/1 What are known as the ‘markets’ in the stock exchange are simply groups of jobbers distributed here and there on the floor of the house. Habit or convenience seems to have determined the particular spots occupied, which are known as the consol market, the English railway market, the foreign stock market, and so on. 1901 C. Duguid 121 The market in which they are dealt in the Stock Exchange is often called the ‘Kaffir Circus’. 1932 9 Jan. 69/2 Support buying of highgrade bonds, particularly in the railroad list, has resulted in improvement of prices and a stronger tone in all security markets. 1967 24 Apr. 32/1 Are aggressive underworld operators beginning to achieve some success in muscling a beachhead among the nation's established securities markets? 1992 11 Apr. 81/1 The resignation of Rolf Kullberg, governor of Finland's central bank,..triggered a run on the markka and caused chaos in the currency markets. 1965 38 145/1 On October 18, 1961, California came to the market with a third $100 million issue. 1976 19 July 30/3 New issues will come to market at the rate of two a month. 1983 20 June 16/4 Gilbert House Investment makes its appearance on the USM boasting an historic p/e of 99 the highest rating of any company to come to market. 1992 12 July iii. 16/3 Offerings came to market with hefty underwriting costs built into their share prices. 1966 24 Nov. 6/3 Thursday was an active day with $83,590,000 of bonds brought to the new issues market. 1969 42 499/1 This essay looks at the new issues brought to market in the first quarter of 1962. 1983 16 June 20/6 Newmarket was brought to market two years ago by broker Cazenove. 1988 13 Nov. d2/3 He is soon to bring his company..to the market, probably through a reverse into an already listed ‘shell’ company. 1996 20 July 78/2 A flood of issuance—something that the government, with a long list of state-owned firms to bring to market, is anxious to avoid. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > state of betting 1874 (rev. ed.) 222 Market-horse, a horse simply kept in the betting-lists for the purpose of being betted against. 1886 Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire & W. G. Craven in Earl of Suffolk et al. (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) v. 85 On arriving at the rails, which separate the private stands' enclosure from the ring, he finds the market well set. 1897 E. H. Cooper xxvi. 255 ‘I've missed the market!’ My friend..explained..that he had not got the best bet against the horse which he might have got. 1972 J. Mitchell ii. 34 Because of..the shortness of the period..for which the betting market on a race is active, racecourse bookmakers keep their betting as simple as possible. 1990 J. Francombe (BNC) 71 With an apprentice riding him, Pendero's odds in the market would lengthen. 1970 5 Feb. 222/1 The market has many virtues, but it panders to every social prejudice, and hardens and embitters every social conflict. 1988 B. C. Smith (BNC) 71 The more that public administration is called upon to solve problems that were at one time left to the market, the greater the contradiction. 1992 10 Oct. 64/1 It was in the states that concepts of a ‘marginal’, ‘entrepreneurial’ government took shape, a government that would use the market wherever possible to change policy. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. 1855 Apr. 444 Ruth and her children are in a tall, dingy New York boarding-house—companions of clerks, market-boys and apprentices. 1863 A. D. T. Whitney v. 44 The market-boys, and the waiters, and the confectioners' parcels. 1989 58 53 You are a simple market boy who is wasting my time with such stupid answers. a1766 F. Sheridan (1767) V. 185 The noise she heard in the court, and which she took for the chariot, was nothing more than a little market-cart. 1833 H. Martineau iii. 49 Her employer was driving his market-cart. 1985 (Thimbleby & Shorland) 6 Mar. 31 Market Cart on large iron-clad wheels to suit a large horse. 1673 R. Hooke 23 Sept. (1935) 61 Viewd Newgate market clock with Wise. a1817 J. Austen Watsons in (1954) VI. 322 ‘Here we are’—said Elizabeth—as the Carriage ceased moving—‘safely arrived;—and by the Market Clock, we have been only five and thirty minutes coming.’ 1959 N. Nicholson 51 The Market Clock strikes eight. 1846 J. E. Worcester Market-crier, a crier of the market. 1827 II. 65 The expenses defrayed out of the surplus of the market dues and other town taxes are those of the Somerset Hospital. 1883 J. R. Green ix. 440 The gift of its [sc. Worcester's] market-dues, wain-shilling and load-penny, was the costliest among the many boons which Æthelred and Æthelflæd showered on Bishop Werfrith. 1992 46 448 In the grant, one person ceded to another a number of political and economic rights to an asset..involving..revenues such as minting and market dues. a1552 J. Leland (1711) II. 22 The Market Place made al of Stone and curiusly voultid for poore Market folkes to stande dry when Rayne commith. 1607 G. Chapman iii. 40 Murther market folkes, quarrell with sheepe, And runne as mad as Aiax. 1843 9 426/1 All is life and motion among the market folks and trades' people, even at this early hour. 1931 D. B. Flanagan iv. 49 Let us go down among The market folk. 2009 N. Ray et al. (Lonely Planet) 440/1 Most market folk set out early to avoid the daytime heat, so try to visit between 6am and 8am. 1794 in (Brit. Mus.) (1935–54) VI. 814 A very bad market girl, indeed, a very bad market girl. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott ii, in (new ed.) 11 The red cloaks of market-girls. 1893 R. W. Buchanan i. i. 7 (stage direct.) Market girls and men discovered selling flowers, fish, pipes, etc. 1988 69 1639/1 A small Oaxacan market girl with imploring gaze clutching a bromeliad flower. society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market building 1611 R. Cotgrave at Droict de poisage A fee due in some places, vnto the king, for the weighing of wares in the Market-hall, or Towne-house. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson II. viii. 207 They saw before them the greatest market-hall in Lixa. 1859 C. Mackay xxxvii. 332 Its long, substantial quays and wharves–its noble cathedral with the two tall towers..–its stately Market-hall of Bons Secours. 1985 I. Opie & P. Opie ii. i. 36 Not content with clipping the church they proceeded to the market-hall, and clipped that too. 1376–1493 in M. Sellers (1912) I. 222 And, if the market keper eucheson [read encheson] hym therfore and why he byes so mykill fyshhe. 1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. iii. 1686 in (H.C. 116) XXIV. 1 Other Officers of the Corporation are..Market Looker, Market Keeper. a1864 R. S. Surtees (1911) lvi. 417 The apartment occupied by the market-keeper and his wife. 1578 G. Whetstone iv. vi. sig. Eiv Other market maydes pay downe for their meate, But that I haue bought, on my score is set. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. vi. 51 But you are come A Market-maid to Rome. View more context for this quotation 1860 Nov. 241/2 To sit still waiting and waiting for customers, like a market maid with her butter. 1919 J. Joyce Ulysses x. [Wandering Rocks] in June 37 She passed out with her basket and a marketnet. 1562 sig. Aiii The straunger markette people haue the preeminence of the markette, vnder payne of three shyllynges foure pence, if the Huxsters dysobey the same. 1661 R. Boyle Style of Scriptures in (1999) II. 462 These..Amplificators, with all their Empty Multiplicity of Fine words, do but, like Market-people, pay a Piece in Twenty Shillings. 1786 26 Apr. A Committee to treat with the Fishermen and other Market People for the hire of the Building at the end of the market. 1872 O. W. Holmes i. 2 As the market people run a butter-scoop through a firkin. 1997 5 Mar. 29/6 ‘Official currency intervention’ is the snap answer many market people would offer. 1914 4 104 An investigation of present and improved methods of marketing and distributing the enormous annual products of our farms..includes..Market surveys—methods and costs. 1944 9 26/2 The current method, perhaps most-widely employed in the selection of respondents in market surveys and in polls of opinion, is that of ‘in ratio’ or ‘quota sampling’. 1973 J. Goodfield vii. 92 I don't think any market surveys have been done. 1998 May 12/2 Hello was developed following a market survey of printers, end-users and merchants. 1670 J. Eachard 44 Such things as are ridiculous, that serve for Chimney and Market-talk. 1987 W. Greider i. i. 18 The interest rate on short-term borrowing among banks rose abruptly from 10.25 percent—50 basis points, in market talk, a very sharp swing for a single day. 1995 3 Mar. i. 17/3 Barnes..refused to comment yesterday on market talk that his firm might be party to a ‘white knight’ counterbid for Wellcome. 1503 c. 6 It shall be lawful..to put them in the Pillory all the Market-time. 1631 T. Brewer sig. F2v He had drawn as great a company of people together as the babling of a cheating mountebancke or ye foule furd throat of an itchy ballad singer in a faire or market time. 1839 J. H. Frere tr. Aristophanes 71 Unconscious of the meditated crime; Meaning to sell my yarn at market-time. 1878 Mar. 206/2 It happened to be the height of market-time. 1990 ‘L. de Bernières’ iii. 20 Nor had he thought he would miss..the coralling of the ceibu steers at market time. 1640 W. Vaughan xiii. 236 So doth the Mystick Whore entangle Soules To credit Dreames, which raise her Market Tolles. 1832 6 Mar. 4 Acts of parliament to establish the right of market tolls. 1874 H. Fawcett (ed. 4) iv. vii. 590 A market toll is paid for the accommodation which a market provides. 1989 94 1106/1 They enforced their market tolls by blocking market forces. society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > work of those selling in market the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > types of gardening 1887 H. H. Jackson iv. 226 Donald liked slow cruising and the market-work best. 1991 29 474/2 Time is divided into work time, in turn subdivided into market work and household work. b. With reference to the money-market. (a) 1895 A. J. Wilson 62 Market operators are tempted by a drop in the price to sell for the fall. 1958 10 20 Did the would-be speculator have the requisite knowledge of business,..to be a successful market operator? 1990 J. K. Galbraith (1993) vii. 90 Youthful market operators, notably the GoGo boys of the 1960s, were believed by others. 1891 G. Clare ix. 105 Immediately it becomes known that gold has actually arrived, the market-quotation gives way. 1925 Oct. 234/2 What would be the market quotations on various Americanos at the present time? 1992 47 838 The ‘market quotation’ is determined by the solvent counterparty obtaining the market quotes from swap dealers for replacing the insolvent swap counterparty. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > type of 1881 G. Smith 179 A mere market-rigger and money-grubber. 1906 June 482/2 But these market-riggers overloaded themselves. 1998 (Nexis) 8 Sept. 1 ‘We just want the market riggers not to treat us as though we are stupid,’ Mr Tsang said. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable 1851 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour in Apr. lxx. 480 All the paraphernalia of odd laying, ‘secret tips’, and market rigging. 1897 23 Aug. 5/1 The rise..is largely attributed to market rigging. 1939 47 471 Distribution may be accomplished by manipulation and market-rigging. 1990 J. K. Galbraith (1993) ii. 22 There will also be scrutiny of the previously much-praised financial instruments and practices—paper money; implausible securities issues; insider trading; market rigging. (b) 1978 126 201/2 This deals with the assertion that the whole morality issue is the inevitable result of a capitalist, market-led economy, and a planned economy is the answer. 1990 J. Park vi. 111 Hammer was too much a market-led company to encourage fresh approaches to the monstrous. 1947 W. H. Auden (1948) ii. 44 You will soon Not bother but acknowledge yourself As market-made, a commodity Whose value varies. C2. the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > in specific place c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 16 He was a Market beter atte fulle. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif (1880) 242 Þouȝ he be a market betere. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 79v A Merkett better, circumforanus. 1932 40 409 The general and fundamental change in market behavior..is to be found in the widespread desire to diminish resort to price competition. 1992 22 Aug. 4/3 In order to outguess a semi-efficient market, an analyst must..anticipate change in the non-informational influences on market behaviour. society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market bell 1517 in P. M. Briers (1960) 185 The sub-bayly shall ring the market bell every market day..at xij of clok. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 15 Watch. Enter, goe in, the Market Bell is rung. View more context for this quotation 1976 4 July 2– c/2 Market bells told the traders that it was time to bargain. But woe to those who traded before or after the bells had rung. 1755 J. Smeaton Diary 7 July in (1938) 48 In holland many of the Markett Boats belonging to the Boors are towed and steered by one person, by means of a pole. 1780 in (1914) 2nd Ser. IV. 401 Mrs. Roker, and one other woman, were going in a market boat from Philadelphia. 1853 ‘P. Paxton’ 278 [He] bought a market-boat, and tried trading upon the bayou. 1878 F. O. Davenport 24 The market boat was sent ashore with the various stewards of the different messes. 1967 L. S. Tawes 153 A little market boat rounded up alongside and wanted to know if I did not want to buy some cabbages. 1976 W. W. Warner iii. 42 Cognoscenti call the crab dredger an oyster ‘buy boat’ or ‘market boat’ in disguise. society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system 1949 1948 Directory Amer. Econ. Assoc. in 39 170/1 (title of diss.) Has market capitalism collapsed? 1976 11 Dec. 129 Thus there is, on the one hand, the view that decentralised market capitalism is a prerequisite to freedom and on the other that actual capitalism leads inevitably to conflict. 1994 19 Oct. c2/1 Market capitalism is not an ideology, Rothschild claims, but a natural state of affairs. 1931 20 June 1331/1 The market capitalisation of the common shares of these concerns was equal to only 74 per cent of the ‘liquidating value’ of the assets behind them. 1991 July 18/2 Investment is to be in listed UK smaller companies, whose market capitalisation would qualify them for inclusion in the Hoare Crovett Smaller Companies Index. society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [adjective] > specific state of market 1950 L. R. Klein in 18 246 What are the structural characteristics of their suggested unique relationship between the excess demand for money and the excess demand for claims? Is it a behavior equation..or is it a market clearing equation? 1971 3 58 They adjust from one market-clearing level toward another. 1974 41 87 Suppressed inflation and suppressed deflation both result from the inability of wages and prices to adjust instantaneously..to satisfy the conditions for general market clearing. 1994 28 Jan. 10/3 We've let a lot of property in the last six months and I believe that in some areas we have reached market-clearing rents. society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > trader at market > market supervisor 1612 T. Studley & A. Todkill in W. Symonds iii. 16 The Salvages, every other day brought such plentie of bread, fish, turkies, squirrels, deare, & other wild beasts: part they gave him as presents from the king; the rest, hee as their, market clarke set the price how they should sell. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Persius (1673) 298 Being market-clark..He break their earthen vessels less then measure. 1817 S. T. Coleridge 212 Words used as the arbitrary marks of thought, our smooth market-coin of intercourse. 1904 F. W. Ward 318 Not even a little sign of heed; I only want to give, And not to get release from need By market coin or measured creed. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > market dues > [noun] 1844 H. Stephens II. 89 The..dues incidental to the road and markets, such as tolls, forage, ferries, and market-custom. 1875 W. Alexander 103 Custodier of the ‘market customs’ at An'ersmas Fair. society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute 1706 E. Ward II. ii. 25 Punks, Strolers, Market Dames. 1872 J. G. Whittier 38 Broad market-dame, and simple serving-girl By skirt of silk and periwig in curl! 1909 T. Hardy 94 These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn. the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > in specific place (Harl. 221) 326 Market daschare, circumforanus. ?1457 J. Hardyng Chron. (Lansd.) in (1912) 27 749 (MED) To yow..It fytteth wele that poynte to execute..And chastyse hem that market dassehers bene. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > jobber in stock exchange 1872 1 June 605/2 The pedler of shoestrings is probably the humblest of the market-dealers. 1920 E. W. Bok (1921) 99 A market dealer in green goods. 1977 8 Oct. 94/1 Those few market dealers caught up in the Geneva conference are cautiously sanguine. With luck, they hazard, the market price of sugar could creep up. 1990 6 Apr. iii. 1/1 Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rebounded Friday as market dealers decided that the fall on the Tokyo market had bottomed out. 1995 6 Apr. (Home Final ed.) 15/1 Son and mother may think the days for the smaller market dealers are numbered. 1977 17 Oct. 144/3 ‘We were the first to announce a complete family of digital equipment,’ says Northern's president, Walter F. Light. ‘Our R&D is completely market-driven.’ 1993 6 Sept. 23/2 City leaders devised a system that combines the cost control of national health care with the best of market-driven medicine. society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system 1929 19 165 A rational market economy was favored also by the attitudes of the stricter sects. 1972 5 Oct. 409/1 In a market economy, in which prices of goods and services are ultimately determined by the forces of supply and demand, any intervention by government in the form of fixing or holding prices and incomes cannot for long be effective. 1991 5 Jan. 49/1 China is still trying to reconcile the irreconcilable: Marxism with a market economy. 1958 72 351 What is it we mean by ‘market failure’? Typically, at least in allocation theory, we mean the failure of a more or less idealized system of price-market institutions to sustain ‘desirable’ activities or to estop ‘undesirable’ activities. The desirability of an activity, in turn, is evaluated relative to the solution values of some explicit or implied maximum-welfare problem. 1993 Feb. 45 Market failure can be handled aggressively, ie to create a disadvantage for a competitor. 1994 Oct. 48/1 The solution to poaching..lies..in identifying and curing a market failure in the livestock sector. the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift brought from or given at a fair society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun] > fair 1776 J. Bentham Pref. p. xxvi ‘Burglary’, says our Author [sc. Blackstone] ‘cannot be committed in a tent or a booth erected in a market fair’ [Blackstone reads: market or fair]. 1821 8 433 The rogues escaped from task, Here take their stand, the ‘market fair’ to ask. 1838 V. 51 I'm gaun wi ye to the market, an' ye maun gie me my market-fare. 1887 H. H. Jackson 7 Who buys? Who buys? 'T is like a market-fair. 1996 R. Hass 58 In the town center of Kwangju, there was a late October market fair. 1838 P. H. Gosse in (1859) 18 There was another somewhat like this, but much larger, that they denominated a market fish. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. 394 At Key West it is brought to market in well-boats and sells readily... The large ones [are called] ‘Margate-fish’ and ‘Market-fish’. 1894 23 404/1 Market fish are those [cod] measuring less [than 22 in.], but weighing three pounds or more. 1911 312 Margate-Fish (Haemulon album).—A grunt found in southern Florida, known also as ‘porgy’, ‘market fish’. 1955 F. G. Ashbrook xii. 190 Recommended methods of preparing fresh-water market fish for storage in refrigerated lockers... Species..Blue pike..Buffalofish..Yellow pike. 1973 J. E. Knight 384 Marketfish—Margate. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne 498 Market-Fresh, that dubious degree of sobriety with which farmers too commonly return home from market. 1894 Jan. 43 The fat rascal, who was already ‘market-fresh’ when we started back. 1979 (Nexis) 23 Sept. l1 The provisions assembled for the making of stock need not be market fresh. 1997 June 158/2 (advt.) Straightforward steakhouse offering meat portions and market-fresh seafood in a warm, clubby atmosphere. 1651 T. Hobbes i. §2. 4 If they meet for Traffique,..a certain Market-friendship is begotten. 1895 ‘M. E. Francis’ 142 Jem..was not by any means ‘market-fuddled’. 1344 in J. R. N. Macphail (1916) II. 134 In eadem villa in via quae dicitur market-gat. 1446 in C. Innes (1845) I. 248 And swa ascendand the markat gate and throw the furde of Ardgrantane. 1495 in C. Rogers (1879) I. 247 Twa acris of our burgh of Kethik liand..nixt the mercat gate on the est side. 1595 in J. H. Ramsay (1915) 144 Ascendand..to the marcat gait that passis to the kirk of Blair in Gowrie, and fra the said marcat gait passand southwest. 1616 in W. Fraser (1889) II. 132 Dryveing ane kow..in the hie mercatt gaitt. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > market dues > [noun] ?a1500 f. 333 b Et valent per ann le Stretward & le marketzeld xviij. 1684 T. Manley (ed. 2) sig. Vv2v Marketȝeld, more truly Marketgeld, It signifies Toll of the Market. 1668 in (Northants. Rec. Soc.) (1937) 168 It shalbe lawfull..to give liberty to the Tenunt..to bring in Carts Waggons and markett horses. 1874 (rev. ed.) 222 Market-horse, a horse simply kept in the betting-lists for the purpose of being betted against. the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > hunter of game for market 1860 J. G. Cooper (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific XII) ii. 225 The Oregon Quail..seems to be a rare curiosity to the market hunters. 1874 J. W. Long 185 Blue-winged teal..are much sought for by market-hunters. 1940 M. B. Trautman 170 According to former market hunters and old sportsmen, the Eastern Least Bittern was the most numerous transient and summering species between 1860 and 1900. 1980 Oct. (Northeast ed.) 79/2 The fabulous shooting seen by the market hunters of generations ago is long gone. the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > hunting for market 1897 30 293/1 I had little dreamed that Michigan would ever so far forget herself as to encourage market-hunting in preference to sportsman like methods. 1945 15 39/1 When market hunting was at its height, the gunners and sportsmen..planned on arriving..about March 20. 1985 H. H. Bretnor in J. N. Perlot p. xxiv He supplemented his income from gold digging by supplying local butchers with game. He was, in fact, engaged in market hunting. 1939 K. W. Kapp in 29 767 In neither instance..is the total quota allocated according to the forces of the market; in fact, market indicators are ignored. 1975 4 Oct. 101/1 Increasing attention is now paid, at least in America and Britain, to the money supply as a market indicator. 1994 28 Oct. 34/4 Using a sophisticated computer model that uses market indicators to predict industry performance, she had warned..that share prices were dangerously inflated. society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > public flogging 1628 O. Felltham lviii. sig. S4v Every offence meets not with a Market lash. Private punishments sometimes gripe a man within. 1877 R. W. Raymond 181 Rich lead on the one hand and market-lead on the other. 1894 14 Information cheerfully given, and market letters furnished, on application. 1936 9 347 (note) The reasons offered by the services in support of the conclusions presented in the market letters. 1967 D. L. Thomas vi. 100 Dow Jones decided to expand its financial letter into a newspaper... The first averages to appear in the D-J market letters in 1884 were made up of eleven stocks. 1990 31 Oct. 21/1 The doom and gloom of those prescient people who publish market letters (telling investors what to do next) has deepened to just about the murky hue needed to forecast a return to sunny blue skies. 1941 8 203 Henry Wallace..has naturally been unable to live comfortably with the free-market liberalism which was once his.] 1975 3 415 Market liberalism also engendered longings for paternal authority. 1985 (Nexis) 12 Aug. 20 Suppose the Japanese declared that American-style market liberalism was naive and that the Japanese brand of managed capitalism was a superior ideology. 1995 5 Feb. i. 6/6 Capitalism and market liberalism seem to rule the world, but there is growing concern about the social hardship and dislocation that they involve. society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > trader at market > market supervisor 1563 in (1884) I. 80 Thofficers called marketlokers. 1591 in (1885) II. 57 To delyuer..them [sc. the weights] to the marketlokers. 1905 28 Mar. 3/9 An early draft (1444) of the [Maldon] by-laws provides that no pedder [i.e. fish-hawker] shall sell any unseasonable fish, or any eels or other fish which have become tainted and unfit for food. This jurisdiction was exercised by two officers, called custodes fori, or supervisores mercati, Englished in Elizabeth's time as market-lookers. society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > stall-keeper > at a market > African woman 1962 ‘A. Lejeune’ vii. 91 There were two Africans, a small man..and his wife, fat as a Market Mammy. 1972 21 Jan. 4/3 About 7,000 white-clad market mammies—women stallholders—with drummers and horn blowers yesterday demonstrated through Accra in support of last week's military coup against the Busia regime. 1995 12 Jan. 29/1 These ‘market mammies’, often illiterate, keep thousands of dollars worth of business in their heads. 1831 166 The proceedings of the Market to be under the control of a Market Master..The following Tariff of fees shall be exacted for the purpose of paying the Market Master a salary. 1851 C. Cist 87 A city treasurer, a marshal, a wharf and three market masters are elected. 1913 J. W. Sullivan 104 The Pennsylvania markets usually get along with a single market-master. 1974 11 Apr. Market Report. The Market Master..reports as follows on the sales held at Grahamstown for the week ending April 5. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > viewed as more or less advantageous > for money 1605 N. Breton sig. B3v Market-matches where Marriages are made without affections. 1919 33 633 Little or nothing has been said..concerning the adequacy of the market mechanism to bring about normal adjustments of actual supply and actual demand conditions. 1965 73 478 We shall make use of the arguments directed against the market mechanism to illustrate the arguments directed against economic theory. 1992 22 Aug. 4/2 If market mechanisms were inherently efficient, Shenzhen..would have emerged as a miniature Wall Street instead of a modern Dodge City. 1898 T. Watts-Dunton (1900) 143/1 The moment that he had passed into ‘market-merriness’. 1847 J. O. Halliwell II Market-merry, tipsy. 1848 A. B. Evans 55 Excited by liquor, fresh... ‘Oh no! He's not drunk! He's only market-merry.’ 1896 Birmingham Daily Post 3 Oct. in (at cited word) Defendant had been to Birmingham, and had returned home ‘market merry’. 1488 in C. Innes & P. Chalmers (1856) II. 259 A chaldir and aucht bollis off beir of gude and fresch wytail with the merkat met.] 1503 in W. Fraser (1863) I. 221 Five chaldir and aucht bollis of vittale, sufficient merchandice, market gud and market met. 1543 No. 100 Sex bollis..of ferme mele gud and sufficient stuff mercat met. 1547 in R. Milne (1893) 241 Fourty peckis weill dycht beir of mercat mett. 1589 in (1902) 57 Mercat met, gude and sufficient stuff. society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > spending- or pocket-money > for spending at market a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine iii. i, in (1647) sig. Gg4v/2 I doe not long to have My sleepe ta'ne from me, and goe pulingly Like a poore wench had lost her marketmoney. 1633 G. Herbert 13 Think heav'n a better bargain, then to give Onely thy single market-money for it. 1851 H. Mayhew I. 16/2 He risks his market-money and only chance of living. 1868 Jan. 40/2 Strawberries are down to ten cents a box..but you didn't leave a cent of market-money. 1891 G. Clare xii. 127 Market-money, roughly speaking, is other people's money. society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > middleman > buying up for resale or monopoly 1629 J. Gaule 389 A Market-monger, Corne-hoorder. society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable 1901 10 Jan. 9/1 The evils of such a system of market mongering. society > trade and finance > [noun] > highly specialized trade or market 1975 (Nexis) 27 Jan. 79 Hewlett-Packard Co. says the new DEC product is ‘probably more complex than most customers in this market niche want.’ 1995 Jan. 28/1 Are you on the trail of the next unexploited market niche? 1909 113 498 Allen executed a stop order, and not a market order. 1922 J. E. Meeker iii. 52 If no price limit is set it is called a ‘market’ order, and is executed at the most advantageous price obtainable on the market at that particular time. 1965 33 89 The market orders are entered as dots on lines at p = ∞ (buy) or p = 0 (sell). 1999 (Electronic ed.) 3 Oct. One investor who placed a market order for an Internet stock he estimated would cost him between $15 and $20 a share. His order went through at $90 a share—for a total of nearly $150,000 more than he expected to spend. 1769 E. Burke Let. to Marquis of Rockingham in (1844) I. 193 The freeholders dined..at a market-ordinary. 1937 4 189 The industry must not be closely market-oriented; for if it is the buyers will be within a very short distance of a source of supply and no discrimination on the basis of distance zones will be practicable. 1977 21 Nov. 49/1 Is it realistic to expect a society such as the U.S.—democratic, individualistic, competitive, diverse, skeptical, market oriented—to display a sudden show of self-discipline and self-sacrifice. 1993 7 Nov. i. 24/3 Argentina, Chile and Venezuela have all been moving towards more market-oriented economies. society > armed hostility > peace > [noun] > cessation of hostilities > suspension of hostilities > type of 1872 J. Yeats 379 The market-peace afforded security to the multitudes who congregated together. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > tip > other types of 1706 tr. H. Schopperus i. vii. 29 His Market-penny, now and then, he spent. a1795 S. Bishop (1796) I. 131 Prompt to enrich a few by starving many, Enjoy'd in hope, a swinging Market-penny! 1815 tr. V. J. E. de Jouy I. 53 Your cook..never considers her market penny an unfair advantage. 1650 J. Trapp (Gen. xxvii. 28) 218 The Church of Rome borrows her mark from the market-plenty, or cheapness. 1860 R. Hunt (ed. 5) II. 664 The ‘market pot’, from which the desilverised lead is laded [sic] out. 1946 (ed. 4) VII. 223 The general method of working was to carry the purer metal towards one end..the last pot of which was called the market pot. society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > ability to be sold 1954 14 4 During the late 1890's and early 1900's..the feeling that the motor car was an expensive novelty with limited market potential was widespread. 1969 J. M. Rathmell v. 200 Market potential is an expression of a market's absorption of a total industry's production in units or dollar sales... The major operational value of market potential is its usefulness in determining spatial rather than temporal objectives. 1996 13 Nov. 28/7 The market potential is enormous. The ability to read DNA sequences would enable doctors to determine whether patients are predisposed to a certain disease. 1915 30 20 Democratic social development..should tend to improve the general position, and through that the market power, of the unprivileged masses of the people. 1994 16 Jan. 14/5 They maintain that purchasing alliances with too much market power..add an expensive layer of bureaucracy to the system. 1954 62 426/2 These market pressures resulted in different changes and in different ways of reaching these changes. 1975 27 Jan. 132 [The U.S. plan] would reinforce the market pressures that eventually could bring the price of oil down to acceptable levels. 1992 14 Aug. 44/1 If everyone backs out of barn-fillers and goes for milling, market pressures will maintain the price of the non-supported types which have a significant yield advantage. 1745 H. Walpole Let. 25 June in (1941) IX. 15 On the right and left..lie two towns, the one, of market quality, and the other with a wharf where ships come up. society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > current value 1662 W. Petty 61 Unless the said inequality in Colledges happen by reason of the fewness of particulars, according to the market rates whereof, their Rents are paid in money. 1692 J. Locke 102 If Money were..to be had..from the Owner himself,..it might then probably be had at the Market..Rate, and would be a constant gauge of your Trade and Wealth. 1700 22 To Those, who at the Market-Rate Can barter Honour for Estate. 1787 J. Bentham vii. 69 No law can reduce the rate of interest below the ordinary market rate, at the time when the law was made. 1825 J. R. McCulloch iii. vii. 336 The market rate of wages. 1878 XVI. 721/1 When the market rate of interest is high money is said to be dear, when it is low money is regarded as cheap. 1991 Aug. 54/3 These companies have soaked up a sizeable proportion of the available credit in the country, mostly at preferential interest rates, forcing smaller fry to borrow at above market rates (sometimes more than 10 per cent more). 1991 6 Dec. 12/5 The financial institutions entered the market at the fag end of the session and bought select shares at the market rates. 1852 May 562 The mention of them in the market reports had thus far escaped his attention. 1898 E. N. Wescott xlii. 353 The news of the world in general was of secondary importance compared with the market reports. 1925 7 198/2 (note) The account of the iron industry given here is taken from miscellaneous market reports, including the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, the Iron Age, and the Iron Trade Review. 1989 23 Oct. 22 In its latest market report, Gill & Duffus, the London trade house, estimates the crop for 1989–90 will be 2.41m tonnes. 1991 S. Faludi vii. 187 There was a reason why their designs continued to regress into female infantilism, even in the face of a flood of market reports on aging female consumers: minimizing the female form might be one way for designers to maximize their own authority over it. society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > other types of journalist 1854 B. F. Taylor 83 And so, as Market Reporters have it, ‘we have movements to note’. 1918 8 267 More valuable contributions can be made to the theory of market price by getting out into the markets with a market reporter than by cogitation in a closet. 1891 H. Johnston I. vii. 122 Dinna be in a hurry yoursel', Peggie, lass; ye are no just market ripe. 1996 C. I. Macafee 217/1 Market-ripe, of a girl ready for marriage. society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > [noun] > risk of financial loss 1918 32 521 The overhead has a distinct bearing on the market risk in commodities subject to side-line production. 1990 H. Griffiths (BNC) 94 This limitation forces the investor to accept the level of market risk. 1993 Apr. 19 (advt.) Moderate market risk from an intermediate-term portfolio of insured municipal securities. the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer > in specific place ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 79v A Merkett rynner, circumforarius. society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place 1552 H. Latimer (1584) 284 It was a common stable in the Market set. 1794 J. Sinclair XI. 420 There is only one licensed public house in the parish, but there are several persons, who, by getting market sets from the excise officers, contrive to retail ale and spirituous liquors during a great part of the year. 1944 9 346 Types of Restrictive Practices and the Economic Groups Favoring Them... Market sharing. 1961 2 Dec. 877/1 Here Mr. Heath sounded rigid. ‘We shall no doubt have to consider..market-sharing arrangements, and long-term contracts.’ 1994 Sept. 10/1 Traditionally, Petrogal operated within a semi-competitive environment. Under a long standing market sharing agreement, Petrogal sold petroleum products alongside BP, Shell, Mobil and Esso. the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [noun] > other types of shooter 1880 6 Mar. 3/2 He knew very well that the ambitious and high-spirited Oscar was not a market-shooter from choice. 1897 30 293/2 The market-shooter, with no dogs to take care of, can sneak through the known haunts of the quail. 1761 8 Afterwards, by a Wire-Sieve called a Market-Sieve, it is separated from the broken and small Rice. 1873 ‘Vieux Moustache’ 36 He had been a hand on a New York market-sloop. 1885 7 206/2 A big market-sloop came along bound west. society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system 1939 29 763 They distinguish ‘administrative’ and ‘market’ socialism... In the latter the central authority resorts to indirect methods and still maintains the ordinary mechanism of the market while modifying and regulating it. 1965 15 Apr. 547/2 The new methods involve a form of market socialism, on the Yugoslav model... Production would be largely guided by the market. 1991 2 136 Whether the ‘new model party’ and ‘market socialism’ herald compromise solutions remains to be seen. society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to types of economic system 1950 58 261/1 The Manchester liberals and the market socialists are becoming remarkably similar. 1958 48 566 The nature of the resulting price and output decisions are investigated and compared with those obtained in the competitive capitalist (or market socialist) model. 1992 6 iii. 102 Market socialist reform in some integrated pattern, with institutional restructuring..has never been tried. 1995 89 751/2 Many contemporary market-socialists argue that the key to an efficient economy is a credible commitment by the state not to interfere in the decisions of firms. 1954 6 128 Catholic societies have tended to retain an authoritarian spirit which has resisted the inroads both of the free-market society and of democratic thought.] 1960 68 551/1 The anarchic market society pointed in the thousand different directions indicated by the self-interest of the individual capitalists. 1967 J. M. Roberts iii. 65 Politically,..[nationalism] was the master idea of the nineteenth century, drawing on the need of men to feel linked to other men at a time when market society was increasingly making them isolated beings. 1994 (Nexis) Sept. 18 Since the establishment has an interest in claiming the solidity of market society, the postmodern insight into a lack of foundations has a subversive potential. society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > market square 1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli vi. f. 58 I sundrie times haue seene men cladde in costly geare Like Princes bout the Market square. 1794 1st Ser. III. 254 Besides the lower floor of Faneuil hall being used as a flesh market, a number of stalls are erected on Market square..and let to the market men. 1836 D. B. Edward 148 A block shall be designated for a market square. 1963 14 Feb. 8/5 The scientist who refuses contact with the people and opts for the Ivory Tower rather than the Market Square is a traitor to himself and to humanity. 1991 F. M. Snowden in 97 The tumult, in the classic manner of the ‘revolutionary crowd’, began in the market square in the farm-workers' quarters. society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] 1827 B. Drake & E. D. Mansfield vi. 55 The Revenue of the Corporation is derived; From..Rent of Market-stalls. 1859 Ld. Lytton (ed. 2) 276 Those windows with the market-stalls before. 1976 16 Dec. 12/5 Tenders for the clearance of the market stalls had been received. 1999 17 Feb. 22/1 But ask for Iranian kamancheh music, or souk-whistled Arab ballads, and a with-it attendant would shoot you a pitying look and direct you, at best, to a Saturday market stall or a Greenpeace rally. 1832 6 Mar. 4 Market Stallage. 1841 13 128 It was then the cattle-market stance, and quite open.] 1864 St. Andrews Gaz. 13 Feb. in (at cited word) A farmer from Fifeshire had gone into a public-house in Lower Bridge Street, not far from the market stance, for the purpose of writing a receipt. 1935 30 Aug. 8 All day long yesterday and well into the evening the new market stance at Aberdeen was a hive of activity on the occasion of the annual Timmer Market. 1983 C. G. Booth (Islay Museums Trust) (BNC) 13 An old market stance will yield comparatively recent ones such as pennies and groats from about the time of William IV. 1552 in C. Rogers (1880) II. 109 Gud and sufficient merkat stuf. 1594 in J. Spottiswoode (1847) Aucht bollis beir guid and sufficient mercat stuiff of the commoun mett of..Jedburt. 1685 H. Bold & W. Bold tr. in xxxix. 120* A Scourge befal that Mony-changing Crew, Where neither God, nor Cæsar has his due! Defiling sacred ground with Market stuff, As if the Streets had not been broad enough. 1856 Apr. 496 The Norfolk steamers carry..over two thousand barrels of market stuff to New York. 1876 L. Coffin xiii. 470 William Beard..came to town with market stuff in a two-horse wagon. 1837 B. Disraeli 30 July (1982) II. 287 Immediately all the bells were set a-ringing, a subscription made at the market tables to illuminate the town in the evening. 1850 W. P. Scargill 3 Such agricultural bucks..are generally..the oracles of the market-table. 1885 T. Mozley (ed. 2) II. cxiii. 361 Farmers are..gregarious. They must meet at the weekly market table, and..discuss the tithe-owners and the landowners. 1977 23 May 94/2 1974 was a disastrous year, and the ‘good’ stocks sagged, too. Since then..managers have become ‘market timers’; the current conventional wisdom offers market timing and not stock selection as the way to win. 1993 17 June 2/1 Market timers select stocks based on price trends in individual stocks, stock groups or the market as a whole. 1970 25 391 The stock market trader has a much more practical criterion for judging what constitutes important dependence in successive price changes.] 1975 19 May 108/1 ‘Some of these fellows are going to be surprised at just how low corn prices will be by fall,’ says one market trader. ‘I just don't see how all of that corn will be absorbed into the marketplace.’ 1975 (Nexis) 19 July 74 ‘Manufacturer's recommended price..24p. Our price 19p.’ Next bargain offer: deep-breathing exercises for street-market traders?] 1976 (Nexis) 11 Sept. 96 Even the market traders in London's Petticoat Lane have grown used to dealing in traveller's cheques. 1992 (BNC) Mar. Mr Cloke senior sold fish right up until the day he died. Oswald..did not plan to become a market trader. 1993 Feb. 47 The system is linked to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange so that contracts opened on SIMEX can be closed on CME, or vice versa, without additional transactional costs to market traders. a1804 J. Tobin (1805) ii. i. 23 Carry a squeaking tythe pig to the vicar; Or jolt with higglers' wives the market trot, To sell your eggs and butter! 1856 13 497/1 The ex-groom..walked his pony on in silence..breaking occasionally into a market-trot. 1888 F. T. Elworthy at Jig-to-jog The slow pace of a horse; just faster than a walk—called sometimes ‘the market trot’. 1784 Maryland Jrnl. 14 Dec. (advt.) in R. H. Thornton (1912) 908 A large Room..for his Customers to lodge in, and deposit their Market-Truck. 1864 E. Morris (ed. 2) viii. 203 We drove a mile or two across the plain to visit ‘a successful market-truck farmer’. 1876 Index 302/2 Market ‘truck’. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ xxvi. 197 Its richness is indexed by its market valuation. 1935 8 385 Numerous persons have suggested that a ‘market valuation’..might be taken as the value of the property. 1988 E. de Bono (BNC) 88 Success, market valuation and cash flow provide a powerful momentum . 1801 J. Barnes Let. 7 Sept. in B. Oberg (2008) XXXV. 224 Mr Dougherty to take with him to Philadelphia your present market waggon Horse. 1873 13 Feb. 4/4 Horticulturists..are reported to have stoves in the rear of their market-wagons. 1895 C. D. Warner i. 9 Here and there [was] a lumbering market-wagon from Jersey. 1992 R.-M. Testa iii. 16 The luminous orange safety triangle hangs on the back of what is called a ‘market wagon’. 1374–5 Manorial Documents in (1936) 34 41 (MED) Marketway. 1589 G. Puttenham iii. xii. 140 He that standes in the market way, and takes all vp before it come to the market in grosse and sells it by retaile. 1877 H. D. Rawnsley 102 The cattle, meeting in the market-way, Claim kinship. 1946 W. G. Arnott p. xvi We have the old market Ways leading to Wodbridge market and the Portweye (1289)..in Martlesham and Hasketon (1581). society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > woman selling at market society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > buyer of provisions 1552 R. Huloet Market woman, foratia. a1640 P. Massinger (1976) ii. i. 13 Of such as trade in the streetes,..Of progresse landresses and market women. 1755 No. 91. ⁋2 My wife is particularly proud of being an excellent Market-woman. 1863 M. E. Braddon i To buy peaches..of the noisy market women. 1986 C. Phillips 41 Bertram looked at the marketwomen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). marketv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: market n. 1. society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale 1455 in J. D. Marwick (1871) 80 Ony vthir merchandise that aucht to be merkettit within the burgh. 1532 in J. Imrie et al. (1960) 162 Geif Ville Turnbull can follow Jhone Scot for travell and mercatting his flech, follou hyme as lau vyll. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xcviii, in (1878) IV. 125 The Treasurer..for a Price Mercates his Maister, to extend his Purse. 1657 Bp. H. King Elegies 13, in The Captiv'd Welch in Couples led, Were Marketted, like Cattel, by the Head. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in I. xviii. 358 Our wealth Is marketted. 1865 11 Aug. The Seven-thirty Loan has now been all marketed. 1892 24 Sept. 12/2 Foreign farmers are obliged to market their corn immense distances by rail, canal, and sea. 1908 19 Nov. 4/2 For next season this company is marketing five models. 1957 Queen Elizabeth II in 15 Oct. 10/6 Due to inability to market their grain, prairie farmers have for some time been faced with a serious shortage of funds to meet their immediate needs. 1987 P. C. Newman 377 Towards the end of the nineteenth century, trappers had marketed three million nutria pelts. society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertise [verb (transitive)] society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale > establish or promote (a product) 1922 A. P. Mills (ed. 2) i. iv. 30 The ground grappiers are also separately marketed as a special cement known as grappier cement. 1927 R. Borsodi i. 4 The problem which industry today is trying to solve is no longer how to produce, but how to market profitably what it can produce. 1950 A. Gross ii. 24 If the product is well accepted and is being marketed successfully, there may be no need to vary from the original product. 1975 23 Mar. 7- c/1 Seghi's insistence that he is not ‘marketing’ Perry. 1980 19 May 2/4 His most successful single product by far was Sunlight Soap, which he marketed and promoted on methods learnt in the U.S. 1997 Aug. 43/3 In the early part of the 1980s, a handful of small local craft breweries marketed themselves as upscale alternatives to the pale and fizzy national brands that had come up to dominate the market in the '50s and '60s. society > trade and finance > [verb (intransitive)] society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > buy provisions society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (intransitive)] > go to market to sell 1636 P. Heylyn ii. 214 That no man should presume to Market on the Lords day. 1747 H. Glasse xxi. 160 How to market. 1772 R. Warner tr. Plautus Twin Brothers ii. ii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus III. 26 I've marketed most rarely. 1821 T. Moore (1853) III. 207 Went into town..in order to market for to-morrow's dinner. 1902 W. Cather Treasure of Far Island in S. O'Brien (1987) 147 But it was a proud day when her son was held in honor by the women of her own town, of her own church; women she had shopped and marketed and gone to sewing circle with. 1951 R. Chandler Apr. (1966) 26 Then I have to go uptown and market. the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)] > take advantage of 1906 T. Hardy i. i. 10 These cloaked visitors of every clime That market on your magnanimity To gain an audience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.lOE v.1455 |
