market
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English market, from Old English market (“market”) and Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié, modern marché); both ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”), from the Italic root *merk-, possibly stemming from Etruscan, referring to various aspects of economics. Cognate with Old Frisian merked (“market”), Old High German markat (“market”), Old Norse markaðr (“market”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːkɪt/
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Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹkɪt/
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Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: mar‧ket
Noun[edit]
market (plural markets)
- City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- ‘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 …”, 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.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site.
- The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh.
- Definition used by famous economist of the Austrian school, Ludwig Von Mises, in his book Human Action.
- The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
- A group of potential customers for one's product.
- We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.
- John Stuart Mill
- 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.
- A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
- Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
- 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, 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.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- (obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
- William Shakespeare
- What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?
- William Shakespeare
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Terms derived from market
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Translations[edit]
spacious site for trading
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organised event of trading
group of customers for a product
geographical area where a commercial demand exists
formally organized system of trading in specified goods or effects
total sum of trading
used attributively
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Verb[edit]
market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)
- (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
- (transitive) To sell
- We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!
- (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to make available and promote
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to sell — see sell
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Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
market
- Alternative form of marketti.
Declension[edit]
| singular | plural | ||
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| nominative | market | marketit | |
| accusative | zero? | market | marketit |
| normal | marketin | ||
| genitive | marketin | marketien | |
| partitive | marketia | marketeja | |
| inessive | marketissa | marketeissa | |
| elative | marketista | marketeista | |
| illative | marketiin | marketeihin | |
| adessive | marketilla | marketeilla | |
| ablative | marketilta | marketeilta | |
| allative | marketille | marketeille | |
| essive | marketina | marketeina | |
| translative | marketiksi | marketeiksi | |
| instructive | — | marketein | |
| abessive | marketitta | marketeitta | |
| comitative | — | marketeineen | |
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See marchié.
Noun[edit]
market m (oblique plural markés, nominative singular markés, nominative plural market)
- (Old Northern French) market; venue where goods are bought and sold
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