market

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Cognate with West Frisian merk, Dutch markt, Old High German Markt.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːkɪt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹkɪt/

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹkət/
• Hyphenation: mar‧ket
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪt, -ɑɹkət

market (plural markets)

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

   Synonyms: mart, fair

   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.

   • 1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action:

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

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

   Synonyms: marketplace, bazaar, arcade

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

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘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.’

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     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.

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

   Hyponym: supermarket (large type)

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

   • 1999, Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, Scribner, →ISBN, pages 45-46:

     Mixes [such as cake mixes, pancake mixes, or sauce mixes] are sometimes a reasonable alternative and sometimes not. […] Pancake mixes often offer no advantages at all. Nonetheless, there are times when you would be foolish not to use a mix. Perhaps a domestic emergency occurs. Perhaps cupcakes must be brought to school tomorrow morning, but when you stop at the market on your way home from work, you cannot remember whether you have baking powder, cream of tartar, baking soda, nutmeg, cake flour, chocolate, or vanilla on your shelf, or you want to go through the “five items or fewer” line. So you buy the mix. Only a glutton for punishment would do otherwise.

8. 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.

   • 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC:

     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.

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

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

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

    Coordinate term: distribution channel (sometimes broadly synonymous)

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

    • 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20:

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

    • 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:

      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.

14. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
16. 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.

    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

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

• mart
• mercantile
• merchant

• → Bengali: মার্কেট (markeṭ)
• → Hindi: मार्केट (mārkeṭ)
• → Japanese: マーケット (māketto)
• → Korean: 마켓 (maket)
• → Odia: ମାର୍କେଟ୍ (mārkeṭ)
• → Persian: (Dari) مارکیت (mârkêt)
• → Turkish: market
• → Urdu: مارکیٹ (markeṭ)

market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)

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 sell.

   We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!

3. (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
4. (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 201:

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

• marketer
• marketing campaign

• “market”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• market in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “market”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑrket/, [ˈmɑ̝rk̟e̞t̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑrket
• Syllabification^(key): mar‧ket
• Hyphenation^(key): mar‧ket

market

1. alternative form of marketti

• “market”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• kermat

• marcat, markat, marked, marketh
• markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)

From late Old English market (“market”), from Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Vulgar Latin marcātus, from classical Latin mercātus (“trade, market”).

Variants ending /t/ are from either Old Saxon or Old Picard, while those ending in /θ/ are from other varieties of Old Northern French (e.g. Walloon).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /marˈkeːt/, /ˈmarkat/, /ˈmarkɛt/
• (ending in /θ/) IPA^(key): /marˈkɛːθ/, /ˈmarkɛθ/

market (plural marketes, dative markete)

1. A market; (periodic public assembly for buying or selling).^[3]
2. A marketplace; a square for holding markets.
3. (rare) A market town; a town where markets are held.
4. (rare) Trade, interchange, interaction.

• English: market (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: market, mercat
  • Scots: market
• Yola: maarkeet, markeat, markeate

Borrowed from Latin mercātus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑr.ket/, [ˈmɑrˠ.ket]

market m

• Middle English: market, marcat, markat, marked, marketh, markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)
  • English: market (see there for further descendants)
  • Middle Scots: market, mercat
    • Scots: market
  • Yola: maarkeet, markeat, markeate

• markiet

See marchié.

market oblique singular, m (oblique plural markés, nominative singular markés, nominative plural market)

1. (Old Northern French) market; venue where goods are bought and sold

Borrowed from English market, from Middle English market, from late Old English market and Anglo-Norman markiet, from Latin mercātus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.kɛt/

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• Rhymes: -arkɛt
• Syllabification: mar‧ket

market m inan

1. market (grocery store)

• market in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• market in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English market.

• IPA^(key): /mɑɾ.cet/

market (definite accusative marketi, plural marketler)

1. market