Definition of "market" in Anglais

noun

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

   • The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
   • There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.

2. A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.

   • This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.

3. Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.

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

4. A group of potential or current customers for one's product.

   • We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.
   • Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.

5. A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.

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

6. 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.

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

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

   • Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.

verb

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

   • We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.

2. (transitive) To sell.

   • We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!

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

4. (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.