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say it: MAHR-kuht-plays
marketplace is a noun meaning "the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold". It carries 2 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”
an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
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 marketplace 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.