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. (noun)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"