market
the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,634 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,348 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold also: marketplace, market place without competition there would be no marketthey were driven from the marketplace
- the customers for a particular product or service before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it
- a marketplace where groceries are sold also: grocery store, grocery, food market the grocery store included a meat market
- the securities markets in the aggregate also: securities industry the market always frustrates the small investor
- an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up also: marketplace, market place, mart
verb
- engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of The company is marketing its new line of beauty products
- buy household supplies We go marketing every Saturday
- deal in a market
market in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Like hams for the market, every body is now regularly salted and smoked.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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It is very easy for farmers to load their vegetables for market right on a boat.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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She remembered how interestedly he had looked at the cabbage leaves when the girl had brought them home from market.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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Brigs that figs for market gather, Homeward-bound upon the stretch, Encounter oft this uglier weather Yet in end their port they fetch.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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This last is beyond all question the simplest, easiest | | to manage and to keep in order, of any machine in the | | market.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1