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Entry 9 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Market

/mär'-kət/ · Mar·ket · IPA /ˈmɑɹkɪt/
01 n. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by pri…
  1. 1.
    A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market.
    “He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.” — Shak.
    “Three women and a goose make a market.” — Old Saying.
  2. 2.
    A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
    “There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.” — John v. 2.
  3. 3.
    An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market.
    “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.” — J. S. Mill.
  4. 4.
    Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
  5. 5.
    The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
    “What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed?” — Shak.
  6. 6.
    The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.(Eng. Law)
  7. 7.
    A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market.
Phrases & compounds
Market beater — a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart.
Market bell — a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin.
Market cross — a cross set up where a market is held.
Market garden — a garden in which vegetables are raised for market.
Market gardening — the raising of vegetables for market.
Market place — an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held.
Market town — a town that has the privilege of a stated public market.
02 v. i. To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
imp. & p. p. Marketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Marketing
  1. 1.
    To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
03 v. t. To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes…
  1. 1.
    To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.
    “Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth.” — Southey.