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单词 market
释义 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 marketNew 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 >
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