1. (noun)market, marketplace, market place the world of commercialactivity where goods and services are bought and sold "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"
2. (noun)market the customers for a particularproduct or service "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
3. (noun)grocery store, grocery, food market, market a marketplace where groceries are sold "the grocery store included a meat market"
4. (noun)market, securities industry the securities markets in the aggregate "the market always frustrates the small investor"
5. (verb)marketplace, market place, mart, market an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
6. (verb)market engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
7. (verb)market buy household supplies "We go marketing every Saturday"
9. (verb)commercialize, commercialise, market makecommercial "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life"
Definitions of 'market'
Webster 1913 Dictionary
1. (noun)market a meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by privatepurchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week
6. (noun)market the privelege granted to a town of having a publicmarket
7. (verb)market to deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods
8. (verb)market to expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops