Word Finder - marts

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A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque.

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A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model).

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A ship commissioned for making captures.

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A market.

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A bargain.

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Battle; contest.

Its auction marts for sheep and cattle sales are the largest in the south-west of Scotland; at an autumn sale as many as 15,000 sheep and 1400 cattle are disposed of in one day.

Athens was an important slave market, and the state profited by a tax on the sales; but the principal marts were those of Cyprus, Samos, Ephesus and especially Chios.

Moliere made large use of the Phormio in Les Fourberies de scapin, and the subject of l'Ecole des marts is taken from the Adelphoe.

In Levantine waters connexions grew up with the great marts of Chalcis and Miletus, with the rulers of Lydia, Phrygia, Cyprus and Egypt.

It is a flourishing distributing centre and has an important corn market and auction marts.

After the defeat of Xerxes the Thasians joined the Delian confederacy; but afterwards, on account of a difference about the mines and marts on the mainland, they revolted.

Formerly one of the great slave and ivory marts of West Africa, it is now a centre of the kola-nut commerce and a depot for government stores.

They were transferred hither from Crieff in 1770, and were formerly the most important in the kingdom, but have to a great extent been replaced by the local weekly auction marts.

The wholesale trade thus rests ultimately with a comparatively small number of persons, who have agencies, or rather corresponding firms, at the great central marts.

There is no town with as many as io,000 inhabitants, trade being conducted at riverside marts.

In the middle ages, when it was named Didymotichos, it was one of the principal marts of Thrace; in modern times it has regained something of its commercial importance, and exports pottery, linen, silk and grain.

Practically the whole trade in palm oil, which comes exclusively from West Africa, is confined to Liverpool, and the bulk of the tallow imported into Europe from Australasia, South America and the United States, is sold in the marts of London and Liverpool.

For beeswax London is one of the chief marts of the world.

These again are sold through the local auction marts attracting buyers from the arable areas.

Other typical satellite industries include coal merchants, cattle marts and merchants selling agricultural foodstuff.

The successful candidate will design and implement data warehouses, data marts and data stores.

Baby cameras and monitors can be found at superstores like Target or at specialty baby marts such as Babies"R"Us.

Many of these types of breeders wholesale them to bird marts, pet stores and individuals.

A hobbyist breeder is a small, family-type organization (many in a person's own home) where different birds are raised and sold to individuals, bird marts and pet stores.

Food marts at gas stations can solve some basic snack needs, but the selection can quickly get repetitive and expensive.