market

noun

1. A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.

   “The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.”

   “There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.”

   “The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.”

2. A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.

   “This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.”

   “‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘[…] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’”

   “The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.”

3. Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.

   “Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.”

4. A group of potential or current customers for one's product.

   “We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.”

   “Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.”

   “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.”

5. A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.

   “Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.”

6. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.

   “The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.”

   “As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.”

   “If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.”

7. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
8. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.

   “Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.”

   “What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed?”

verb

1. (transitive)To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

   “We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.”

2. (transitive)To promote for or as if for sale.

   “However, the intention here is not to market any particular belief, but rather to catalyze people to think more about life after death and its meaning in the face of grief and loss.”

3. (transitive)To sell.

   “We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!”

4. (intransitive)To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
5. (intransitive)To shop in a market; to attend a market.

   “We did a little shopping; but I cannot remember much of the town. It was Saturday night, and all Perth was marketing.”

name

1. A surname.