market

Meanings

Noun

• A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
• City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
• A grocery store
• A group of potential customers for one's product.
• A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
• A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
• The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
• The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.

Verb

• To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
• To sell
• To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

Related

Similar words

• bazaar
• fair
• mart
• arcade

Origin

• From Middle English market, from late Old English market ("market") and Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié); both ultimately from Latin mercātus ("trade, market"), from mercor, itself derived from merx.
• Cognate with Old Frisian merkad, merked, marked, market, Middle Dutch market, marct, Old High German markat ("market"), Old Norse markaðr ("market").