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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.