market
noun · verb
Simple meaning
The customers for a particular product or service.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
mahrkuhtSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈmɑɹkət
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
The customers for a particular product or service
A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
verb
intransitive
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Make commercial
transitive
To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
intransitive
To shop in a market; to attend a market.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The customers for a particular product or service
Used this way, market is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use market
- “Without competition there would be no market.”noun
- “The grocery store included a meat market.”noun
- “The market always frustrates the small investor.”noun
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Inflected forms
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The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money.
Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
An estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share.
A cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted.
A fixed day for holding a public market.
An economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices.
The interaction of supply and demand that shapes a market economy.
A garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing.
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Synonyms
Sense: customers for a particular product or service
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