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say it: MAHR-kuht
market is a noun and verb meaning "the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold". It carries 9 recorded senses.
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”
the customers for a particular product or service
“before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it”
a marketplace where groceries are sold
“the grocery store included a meat market”
the securities markets in the aggregate
“the market always frustrates the small investor”
an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
make commercial
“Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life”
commerce
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for market come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.