单词 | on the market |
释义 | > as lemmason (also in) the market a. The arena in which commercial dealings in a particular commodity or product are conducted; the trade in a particular commodity or product. on (also in) the market: offered for sale. to put (something) on the market: to offer for sale. Also figurative.Frequently with commodity or product specified (either attributive or with in); for common collocations, as art, land, money, property market: see the first element. See also stock-market n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [noun] > trade in a type of commodity trade1622 truck1638 marketa1653 society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > for sale to set on (or a) sale1546 vendible1552 saleable1599 venal1662 on (also in) the market1776 a1653 R. Filmer Disc. Use for Money (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 Misc. in Prose & Verse (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 Inq. Wealth of Nations 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 London Dispensatory ii. 21 The real Socotrine aloes, which are now scarce in the market. 1846 Sydney Morning Herald 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 Rogue's Luck 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 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Nov. 320 The only type of air tyre on the market. 1909 R. Kaleski Austral. Settler's Compl. Guide 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 Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xii. 359 Japan with its Formosan production, still controls the market in camphor. 1964 Financial Times 31 Jan. 4/3 The development of a Sugar Market..the nature and frequency of whose price movements were unknown in living memory. 1967 New Scientist 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 Modelworld 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 Oxf. Econ. Papers June 259 Since they produce identical goods the firm setting the lower price captures the entire market. < as lemmas |
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