Word Finder - market

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A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.

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The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh.

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City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.

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A grocery store

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Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk

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A group of potential customers for one's product.

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We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.

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A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.

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Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.

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A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.

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The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.

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The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.

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The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.

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To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

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We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.

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To sell

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We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!

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To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

The market is only two blocks away.

I'll go to the market now.

There is a large weekly market for grain, and annual horse and cattle fairs.

The rich cinnamon-vanilla scent of the bath bubbles filled the air, reminding her of the candle she'd bought at the farmers market the day her life went to hell.

Wasn't '29 when the market crashed?

I think you like going to the farmer's market in the morning.

When you trade with someone in a free market, you are giving up something you have for something the other person has, which you value more.

After leaving the ice park, Dean had gone on to Duckett's Market for groceries.

You would argue that no other widget on the market can beat the C2000, no nation can ever gain widget superiority if the government just buys the C2000—and so they do.

In Richmond, Virginia, one Saturday morning, an old man went into the market to buy something.

She's gone to the market, she shouldn't be long.

They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck.

It was the man he'd seen talking to Ginger Dawkins at the Farmer's Market on Sunday.

I one evening overtook one of my townsmen, who has accumulated what is called "a handsome property"--though I never got a fair view of it--on the Walden road, driving a pair of cattle to market, who inquired of me how I could bring my mind to give up so many of the comforts of life.

The market man wrapped a paper round it and put it in the basket.

It was only a couple of blocks to Duckett's Market, but he needed the Jeep to haul the groceries.

Before going home, she made a trip to the market and bought prepared food for the first time.

All the profound plans about cutting off and capturing Napoleon and his army were like the plan of a market gardener who, when driving out of his garden a cow that had trampled down the beds he had planted, should run to the gate and hit the cow on the head.

It was when Pierre (wearing the coachman's coat which Gerasim had procured for him and had disinfected by steam) was on his way with the old man to buy the pistol at the Sukharev market that he met the Rostovs.

Fred offered to go up to Duckett's Market for boxes and give up closet space to temporarily store the large pile.

Market days are Monday and Wednesday.

They have something they love and want to do, but if market forces are not such that they can support themselves doing that, they have to do something else.

In the future, all people will be able to follow their passions without regard for market forces.

Asheville is a market for live-stock, dairy products, lumber and fruits, and has various manufactories (in which a good water-power is utilized), including tanneries, cotton mills, brick and tile factories, and a wood-working and veneer plant.

After the Turks were driven from the city in 1878, it was in many respects modernized; but something of its former character is preserved in the ancient Turkish palace, mosque and fountain, the maze of winding alleys and picturesque houses in the older quarters, and, on market days, by the medley of peasant costumes - Bulgarian, Albanian and Rumanian, as well as Servian.

These jobs can be market jobs that have the potential to make a person vastly richer, creating more and more wealth on the planet.

Sarah, your stock dealings have outperformed the market every year since 1933, of course you're going to be investigated.

There is also an important butter and cheese market.

In Columbus there is a large market for imported horses.

Gabe made his way through the narrow alleys and disjointed walkways that wound like a maze through the market.

Alex had instructed Carmen to put the insurance benefit in a money market where it would draw interest until Lori had time to recover.

The olive oil produced is mainly mixed with that from Genoa or Provence, and placed on the market under the name of the latter.

Market gardening is carried on both near towns and villages, where products find ready sale, and along the great railways, on account of transport facilities.

There are many fine streets and squares and some handsome public monuments, notably among the last the fountain on the market square surmounted by a statue of Charlemagne, the bronze equestrian statue of the emperor William I.

With Fisk in August 1869 he began to buy gold in a daring attempt to "corner" the market, his hope being that, with the advance in price of gold, wheat would advance to such a price that western farmers would sell, and there would be a consequent great movement of breadstuffs from West to East, which would result in increased freight business for the Erie road.

The Yarn Market, a picturesque octagonal building with deep sloping roof, in the main street, dates from c. 1600, and is a memorial of Dunster's former important manufacture of cloth.

The machine which will gin the largest quantity in the shortest time is naturally preferred, unless such injury is, occasioned as materially to diminish the market value of the cotton.

Of her numerous temples at Rome, the most ancient was appropriately in the forum olitorium (vegetable market), built during the first Punic war, and since that time twice burnt down and restored.

In the large market place is the statue of the Prussian king Frederick William I., erected in 1824, and there is a war memorial on the Friedrich Wilhelm Platz.

A grant of a market was obtained in 1247, and this is still of importance as regards both cattle and corn.

There were bazaars, shops, warehouses, market stalls, granaries--for the most part still stocked with goods-- and there were factories and workshops, palaces and wealthy houses filled with luxuries, hospitals, prisons, government offices, churches, and cathedrals.

It is also a considerable market for horses, cattle and grain, and there is a little boat-building and salt and sail-cloth manufacture.

Forty years later it had a market at St Petersburg and the Baltic ports, and in 1796 there were nine brewing firms in the town.

The Tuesday market has long been discontinued.

The trade of Market Bosworth is principally agricultural, and there are brickworks.

William de Braose claimed to have a free market on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Great improvements, however, have been effected in the design of open fireplaces, and many ingenious contrivances of this nature are now in the market which combine efficiency of heating with economy of fuel.

Denver is the central live-stock market of the Rocky Mountain states.

Troy is the market for a fertile agricultural region, and the principal jobbing centre for a large district in north-eastern New York and eastern Massachusetts.

A weekly market on Wednesdays was granted to John, earl of Richmond, in 1308 together with an eight days' fair beginning on the vigil of St Margaret's day, and in 1445 John de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, one of his successors as lord of the manor, received a further grant of the same market and also two yearly fairs, one on the feast of St Philip and St James and the other at Michaelmas.