an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
a store for the sale of food: a meat market.
a meeting of people for selling and buying.
the assemblage of people at such a meeting.
trade or traffic, especially as regards a particular commodity: the market in cotton.
a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity: the cotton market.
the field of trade or business: the best shoes in the market.
demand for a commodity: an unprecedented market for leather.
a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services: the health-food market.
a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used: the foreign market; the New England market.
current price or value: a rising market for shoes.
stock market.
verb (used without object)
to buy or sell in a market; deal.
to buy food and provisions for the home.
verb (used with object)
to advertise (something) to a target audience or for a recommended use: The vacation homes are marketed to retirees and other seniors.This movie was marketed as a horror film, rather than a drama.
to carry or send to market for disposal: to market produce every week.
to dispose of in a market; sell.
Idioms for market
at the market, at the prevailing price in the open market.
in the market for, ready to buy; interested in buying: I'm in the market for a new car.
on the market, for sale; available: Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week.
Origin of market
First recorded in 1100–1150; Middle English market, market(t)e, markat(t)e, late Old English market, from Vulgar Latin marcātus (assumed), from Latin mercātus “trading, traffic, market”; see origin at merchant