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mar·ket I. \ˈmärkə̇t, ˈmȧk-, usu -ə̇d.+V\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old North French, from Latin mercatus trade, marketplace, from mercatus, past participle of mercari to trade, from merc-, merx ware, merchandise; akin to Oscan amiricadut without remuneration, and perhaps to Greek marptein to seize, Sanskrit mṛśati he touches; basic meaning: to seize 1. a. (1) : a meeting together of people at a stated time and place for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, or wares) by private purchase and sale and usually not by auction (2) : the people assembled at such a meeting (3) : the privilege in English law of having a public market b. (1) : a public place (as an open space in a town or a large building) where a market is held : marketplace; specifically : a place where provisions are sold at wholesale < the city market > < fish market > (2) : a retail establishment usually of a specified kind < a meat market > 2. archaic a. : the act or an instance of buying and selling < every man will speak of the fair as his own market has gone in it — Laurence Sterne > b. : an object of bargaining or dealing c. : opportunity for buying or selling — usually used in the phrases lose one's market or overstand one's market 3. a. : the rate or price offered for commodities : market price b. : the current bid and asked price for a security or other property < ask the broker for the market on this stock > 4. : a sphere within which price-making forces operate and in which exchanges in title tend to be followed by actual movement of goods: as a. : a geographical area of demand for commodities < sell in the southern market > < the world market > b. : the course of commercial activity by which the exchange of commodities is effected : condition with respect to demand : extent of demand < the market is dull > < the following prices … are eloquent of the declining market — New Biology > c. : a formal organized coming together of buyers and sellers of goods < the stock market > < the livestock market > 5. : a unit of volume in the lumber trade represented by a log 19 inches in diameter at the small end inside the bark and 13 feet long and containing approximately 200 board feet • - at the market - away from the market - in the market II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) intransitive verb : to deal in a market : to go to market to buy or sell transitive verb 1. : to expose for sale in a market : traffic in : sell in a market 2. : sell III. noun 1. : the available supply of or potential demand for specified goods or services < the labor market > < has captured more than two-thirds of the cleaning-agent market — Barry Commoner > 2. : a specified category of potential buyers < youth market > |