MARKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does market mean? 

• MARKET (noun)
  The noun MARKET has 5 senses:

1. the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

2. the customers for a particular product or service

3. a marketplace where groceries are sold

4. the securities markets in the aggregate

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

  Familiarity information: MARKET used as a noun is common.

• MARKET (verb)
  The verb MARKET has 4 senses:

1. engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of

2. buy household supplies

3. deal in a market

4. make commercial

  Familiarity information: MARKET used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

market; market place; marketplace

Context example:

they were driven from the marketplace

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Meronyms (parts of "market"):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

buyer's market; buyers' market; soft market (a market in which more people want to sell than want to buy)

gray market; grey market (an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency)

seller's market; sellers' market (a market in which more people want to buy than want to sell)

labor market (the market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers)

monopoly ((economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller)

monopsony ((economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer)

oligopoly ((economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors)

black market (an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls)

Derivation:

market (engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of)

market (make commercial)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The customers for a particular product or service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

black market (people who engage in illicit trade)

Derivation:

market (engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A marketplace where groceries are sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

food market; grocery; grocery store; market

Context example:

the grocery store included a meat market

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

Meronyms (parts of "market"):

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

greengrocery (a greengrocer's grocery store)

supermarket (a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods)

Derivation:

market (deal in a market)

market (buy household supplies)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The securities markets in the aggregate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

market; securities industry

Context example:

the market always frustrates the small investor

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Meronyms (members of "market"):

securities market; stock exchange; stock market (an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers)

nondepository financial institution (a financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

bear market (a market characterized by falling prices for securities)

bull market (a market characterized by rising prices for securities)

the City (used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain)

the Street; Wall Street (used to allude to the securities industry of the United States)

money market (a market for short-term debt instruments)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

market; market place; marketplace; mart

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet (a place of business for retailing goods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

bazaar; bazar (a street of small shops (especially in Orient))

agora (the marketplace in ancient Greece)

slave market (a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War))

market square; open-air market; open-air marketplace (a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold)

food market; grocery; grocery store; market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

agora; public square (a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece)

• MARKET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they market    ... he / she / it markets   
Past simple: marketed   
Past participle: marketed   
-ing form: marketing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The company is marketing its new line of beauty products

Hypernyms (to "market" is one way to...):

merchandise; trade (engage in the trade of)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "market"):

offer (make available for sale)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

market (the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold)

market (the customers for a particular product or service)

marketable (capable of being marketed)

marketable (fit to be offered for sale)

marketer (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Buy household supplies

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

We go marketing every Saturday

Hypernyms (to "market" is one way to...):

shop (do one's shopping)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deal in a market

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "market" is one way to...):

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

marketing (shopping at a market)

marketing (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make commercial

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

commercialise; commercialize; market

Context example:

Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life

Hypernyms (to "market" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

marketing (the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service)

marketable (fit to be offered for sale)

marketable (being in demand by especially employers)

marketable (capable of being marketed)

market (the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold)

 Context examples 

If the outcomes of these trials are successful and funding is available, Chibale says the drug could be on the market in six to eight years.

(Antimalarial candidate holds promise as a single dose, SciDev.Net)

A means for providing compassionate use of investigational agents between the time that an agent has been shown to have anti-tumor activity and the time that drug becomes available on the market.

(Group C/Treatment IND Protocol, NCI Thesaurus)

A category specifying that a product is marketed under a Biologic License Application.

(Biologics License Application, Food and Drug Administration)

If you dream of having your own television or radio show or marketing your own app, this is the month to get serious about your dream.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Due to life-threatening side effects, this antibody is no longer on the market.

(Fanolesomab, NCI Thesaurus)

HIPAA has separate provisions for the large and small group markets, and the individual market.

(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, NCI Thesaurus)

After a treatment has been approved and is being marketed, it is studied in a phase IV trial to evaluate side effects that were not apparent in the phase III trial.

(phase IV trial, NCI Dictionary)

Something is the matter—maybe it is with the market—that prevents you from earning a living by it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘Have you kept in touch with the market while you have been out of work?’ he asked.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Eribaxaban is no longer on the market.

(Eribaxaban, NCI Thesaurus)