market

Definitions

• A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
• City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
• A grocery store
• A group of potential customers for one's product.
• A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
• A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
• 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.