market
see also: Market
Etymology
Market
Etymology
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see also: Market
Etymology
From Middle English market, from late Old English market and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); both ultimately from Latin mercātus, from mercor ("I trade, deal in, buy"), itself derived from merx ("wares, merchandise").
Pronunciation Nounmarket (plural markets)
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
- The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
- 1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action:
- The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
- City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’
- A grocery store
- Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk
- A group of potential customers for one's product.
- We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.
- 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC ↗:
- There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.
- A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
- Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
- 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.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- (obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?
- French: marché
- German: Markt, Marktplatz
- Italian: mercato
- Portuguese: feira, mercado
- Russian: ры́нок
- Spanish: plaza, mercado
- French: du marché
- German: Markt-
- Portuguese: de mercado
- Russian: ры́ночный
- Spanish: del mercado
market (markets, present participle marketing; simple past and past participle marketed)
- (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
- (transitive) To sell.
- We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
- (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
- marketer
- marketing campaign
- French: commercialiser
- German: vermarkten
- Portuguese: mercar, marquetear
- Spanish: poner al mercado, comercializar
Market
Etymology
Topographic surname for someone who lived by a market.
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