market

market
mar•ket
[[t]ˈmɑr kɪt[/t]] n.
1) an open place or a building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods
2) a store for the sale of food
3) a meeting of people for buying and selling
4) the people assembled
5) bus trade in a particular commodity:
the cotton market[/ex]
6) bus demand for a commodity:
a dwindling market for leather goods[/ex]
7) cvb bus the body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services:
the health-food market[/ex]
8) cvb bus a region in which goods and services are bought or used:
the foreign market[/ex]
9) an economic situation in which supply and demand interact through the activity of buyers and sellers:
market forces; a market economy[/ex]
10) bus
stock market
11) to deal commercially in a market
12) cvb to buy provisions for the home
13) to offer in a market for sale
14) to sell
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Etymology: 1100–1150; \<\< L mercātus=mercā(rī)to buy (frommerxcommodity) +-tussuffix of v. action mar′ket•er, n.

From formal English to slang. 2014.

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