What does market place mean?

Definitions for market place
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. market, marketplace, market placenoun

    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"

  2. marketplace, market place, mart, marketnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Market-placenoun

    Place where the market is held.

    Etymology: market and place.

    The king, thinking he had put up his sword, because of the noise, never took leisure to hear his answer, but made him prisoner, meaning the next morning to put him to death in the marketplace. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

    The gates he order’d all to be unbarr’d,
    And from the marketplace to draw the guard. Dryden.

    Behold the marketplace with poor o’erspread,
    The man of Ross divides the weekly bread. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. market place

    A marketplace is a location or platform where buyers and sellers come together to exchange goods, services, and information. This can be a physical location such as a store, mall, or market, or a digital platform such as an e-commerce website or online auction site. The marketplace facilitates transactions and typically enables price and product comparison.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of market place in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of market place in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of market place in a Sentence

  1. Jonny Fine:

    When polling data starts to come out after the conventions and through the summer weeks, that will potentially diminish risk taking in the market place - likely as we move into later September, that's why we will see robust issuance in the next two to three weeks, as many issuers want to avoid being in the midst of a potentially volatile September or October.

  2. Thomas Hardy:

    If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

  3. Tim Huxley:

    It reflects concern about what's happening in the South China Sea and its need to restructure and re-arm, with a greater emphasis on greater naval and air capability, it wants to widen options available and have more choices in the international market place in terms of range of technology and its negotiating position.

  4. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

    One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

  5. Abgassi Adoum:

    The suicide bombing took place at the entrance of Bodo. Two women bombers wanted to get to the market place but they were stopped by vigilantes.


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