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Definition for: market

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English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mercatus "trade; market", derived from merx "merchandise". Related are merchant and Mercury (among other things the Roman god of commerce).

Pronunciation

IPA SAMPA
GenAm /ˈmɑrkɪt/ /"mArkIt/
  • Hyphenation: mar·ket

Noun

market ( plural: markets )

  1. City square where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
    The crowds at the market were quite noisy .
  2. Place where you can buy something.
    We're going to the market to get some fresh vegetables and fruits .
  3. Place where trading goes on.
    There was heavy trading of stock in the market today .
  4. Group of customers that possibly want to buy your product.
    We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner .

Translations

  • Albanian: pazar m , treg m
  • Arabic: سوق (sūq)
  • Breton: marc'had m -où pl (1,2,3,4), koc'hu m (2)
  • Catalan: mercat m
  • Chinese: 市場, 街市, 市集
  • Croatian: trg m
  • Czech: trh m
  • Danish: torv n
  • Dutch: markt m (1,2,3,4), marktplein n (1), beurs (2,3,4)
  • Finnish: markkinat (1,2,3,4), tori (1)
  • French: marché m (1,2,3,4)
  • German: Markt m (1,2,3,4)
  • Greek: αγορά (agorá) f
  • Hebrew: שוק (shoq) m
  • Hungarian: piac
  • Icelandic: markaður m
  • Indonesian: pasar (1,2,3,4)
  • Interlingua: mercato
  • Irish: margadh m
  • Italian: mercato m
  • Japanese: 市場 (いちば, ichiba, 1), 市場 (しじょう, shijō, 4)
  • Kannada: Marukatte, Maruva - Selling, katte - place to sit
  • Korean: 시장 (市場, sijang)
  • Kurdish: bazar
  • Latin: macellum n , forum n
  • Norwegian: marked n (1,2,3,4), torv n
  • Old High German: marchat m
  • Polish: targowisko n
  • Portuguese: mercado m
  • Romanian: târg f and m , piaţă f
  • Russian: рынок (rynok) m
  • Serbian:
    Cyrillic: трг m
    Latin: trg m
  • Slovak: trh m
  • Spanish: mercado m
  • Swahili: soko
  • Swedish: torg n
  • Tajik: бозор (bozor)
  • Telugu: అంగడి (amgaDi) (1, 2), సంత (samta) (1, 2), విఫణి (viphaNi) (3)
  • Tetum: merkadu, basar
  • Turkish: çarşı
  • Ukrainian: базар m
  • Volapük: maket
  • Welsh: marchnad f

Related terms

Transitive verb

to market ( third-person singular simple present markets , present participle marketing , simple past marketed , past participle marketed )

Infinitive
to market

Third person singular
markets

Simple past
marketed

Past participle
marketed

Present participle
marketing

  1. Making products available for sale and promoting them.
    We plan to market it by next quarter .

Translations

  • Finnish: markkinoida
  • German: vermarkten
  • Indonesian: memasarkan
  • Interlingua: poner a mercato
  • Spanish: poner al mercado
  • Volapük: maketön

Adjective

market ( no comparative or superlative )

  1. With relation to the market.
    We waited to hear the latest market results .

Translations

  • Dutch: markt-
  • Finnish: markkina-
  • French: du marché
  • German: markt-
  • Interlingua: del mercato
  • Portuguese: de mercado
  • Spanish: del mercado
  • Volapük: maketik

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