markets

/ˈmɑːkɪts/

IPA: /M AA1 R K AH0 T S/

noun

1
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
“The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh.”
2
City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
3
A grocery store
“Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk”
4
A group of potential customers for one's product.
“We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.”
5
A geographical area 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.”
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; worth.

Synonyms

verb

1
To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
“We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.”
2
To sell
“We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!”
3
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

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