market | |
1. n. City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. | |
2. n. An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site. | |
The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh. | |
3. n. Flea market | |
4. n. A group of potential customers for one's product. | |
We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner. | |
5. n. A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists. | |
Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta. | |
6. n. 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. n. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities. | |
8. n. (obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth. | |
9. v. To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. | |
We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter. | |
10. v. To sell | |
We marketed more this quarter already then all last year! | |
11. v. (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. | |