market place

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmarketplacemartmarket

   Broadermercantile establishment

   Narroweragorabazaargrocery storeopen-air marketslave market
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsmarketmarketplace

   Broaderactivity

   Narrowerblack marketbuyer's marketgrey marketseller's marketlabor marketmonopolymonopsonyoligopoly

   Partscommercial enterprise

Questions about market place

What does market place mean?

market place means "an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for market place?

Close synonyms include marketplace, mart, market, market, marketplace. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is market place a common word?

market place is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.