market

Noun

• an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

• the securities markets in the aggregate
  • the market always frustrates the small investor
    

• 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
  • without competition there would be no market
    
  • they were driven from the marketplace
    

Verb

• make commercial
  • Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life
    

• deal in a market

• buy household supplies
  • We go marketing every Saturday
    

• engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
  • The company is marketing its new line of beauty products
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  marketplace , market place , mart , securities industry , grocery store , grocery , food market , commercialize , commercialise