market Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
    market place; marketplace.
    • without competition there would be no market
    • they were driven from the marketplace
  2. noun the customers for a particular product or service
    • before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it
  3. noun a marketplace where groceries are sold
    grocery; food market; grocery store.
    • the grocery store included a meat market
  4. noun the securities markets in the aggregate
    securities industry.
    • the market always frustrates the small investor
  5. noun an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
    market place; mart; marketplace.
  6. verb engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
    • The company is marketing its new line of beauty products
  7. verb buy household supplies
    • We go marketing every Saturday
  8. verb deal in a market
  9. verb make commercial
    commercialize; commercialise.
    • Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life

WordNet

Mar"ket noun
Etymology
Akin to D. markt, OHG. markat, merkat, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place, fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain, acquire: cf. F. marché. See Merit, and cf. Merchant, Mart.
Definitions
  1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
    He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak.
    Three women and a goose make a market. Old Saying.
  2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
    There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool. John v. 2.
  3. An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods.
    There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market. J. S. Mill.
  4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
  5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
    What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? Shak.
  6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. ✍ Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like.
Mar"ket intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Marketed; present participle & verbal noun Marketing
Definitions
  1. To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Mar"ket transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.
    Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth. Southey.

Webster 1913