Meaning

8 senses
  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.

    Markt

    я́рмаркаjármarka, база́рbazár

  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.

    Markt, Marktplatz

    ры́нокrýnok, база́рbazár

    ри́нокrýnok, база́рbazár

  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.

    магази́нmagazín

  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.

    Markt

    ры́нокrýnok

    the customers for a particular product or service

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

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

    ры́нокrýnok

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

  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.

    Markt-

    ры́нокrýnok, торго́вляtorgóvlja, торгtorg

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

    Markt

    торго́вляtorgóvlja

  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.

Examples

1086 sentences
  1. I think there's a market for that.

    Гадаю, для цього є свій ринок.

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  2. He's making a lot of money in the stock market.

    Він заробляє багато грошей на біржі.

    deEr verdient auf dem Aktienmarkt ziemlich viel Geld.

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  3. Why did the stock market crash?

    Чому обвалився фондовий ринок?

    ruПочему обвалился фондовый рынок?

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  4. Did you buy it on the black market?

    Ти його купив на чорному ринку?

    ruТы купил это на черном рынке?

    deHast du es auf dem Schwarzmarkt gekauft?

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  5. Is this new model available on the market?

    Ця нова модель вже є на ринку?

    ruЭта новая модель доступна на рынке?

    deIst dieses neue Modell auf dem Markt erhältlich?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
spacious site for trading:
Русский
By meaning 5
gathering for trading:
spacious site for trading:
physical store:
formally organized system of trading in specified goods or effects:
used attributively:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
gathering for trading:
spacious site for trading:
used attributively:

Origin

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman marki

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).

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Forms

plural: markets
Singularmarket
Pluralmarkets

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

186 related words

Collocations

10 patterns
  • the stock market
  • stock market
  • flea market
  • the flea market
  • to the market
  • a flea market
  • stock market is
  • a market for
  • there's a market
  • on the market

See also

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