Dictionary Entry
market
market is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
- 2noun
A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
- 3noun
An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods.
- 4noun
Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
- 5noun
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
- 6noun
The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
- 7intransitive verb
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- 8transitive verb
To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.
- 9noun
the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
"without competition there would be no market"
"they were driven from the marketplace"
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- 10noun
a marketplace where groceries are sold
"the grocery store included a meat market"
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- 11noun
an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
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- 12noun
the securities markets in the aggregate
"the market always frustrates the small investor"
- 13noun
the customers for a particular product or service
"before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
- 14verb
make commercial
"Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life"
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- 15verb
engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
"The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
- 16verb
deal in a market
- 17verb
buy household supplies
"We go marketing every Saturday"
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