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US
/ˈmɑɹkət, ˈmɑɹkɪt/
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[ UK /mˈɑːkɪt/ ]
[ UK /mˈɑːkɪt/ ]
NOUN
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a marketplace where groceries are sold
the grocery store included a meat market -
the customers for a particular product or service
before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it -
the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
they were driven from the marketplace
without competition there would be no market -
the securities markets in the aggregate
the market always frustrates the small investor - an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
VERB
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make commercial
Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life -
buy household supplies
We go marketing every Saturday - deal in a market
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engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
The company is marketing its new line of beauty products
How To Use market In A Sentence
- The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
- There are a lot of so-called "Mathematical Economic Models" in today's market, but none of them presents an inclusive and deterministic system.
- Fun is the secret ingredient of a lot of great companies, but 10 years of economic prosperity, a resurgent stock market, and the dawning of the dot-com have created other business priorities.
- They are both a product of the marketisation of education.
- And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well. Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
- Net interest income dropped to $256.4 million, primarily due to the low market-interest rates that resulted in lower yields on mortgage-related interest-earning assets as customers refinanced to lower mortgage rates and new loans and asset purchases were at the current low market interest rates. Hudson City Bancorp Swings to Loss
- Winter is traditionally the dead season for the housing market.
- Still, it's nowhere near what he would command on the free-agent market.
- Still, for the medium term, either the government needs to scutinize refinery activity much more closely, adopt new regulatory authority and aggressively enforce antitrust laws, or it must intervene to deconcentrate the market. Robert Weissman: What To Do About the Price of Oil
- A country which once conquered the commercial world now fails to make the most of the global market place.