“markets” is a form of
market
UK /ˈmɑːkɪt/ · US /ˈmɑɹkɪt/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms markets marketing marketed
- noun A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time. “The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.”
- noun A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise. “This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.”
- noun Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store. “Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.”
- noun A group of potential or current customers for one's product. “We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.”
- noun A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists. “Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.”
- noun A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects. “The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.”
- noun The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- noun The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value. “Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.”
- verb (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. “We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.”
- verb (transitive) To promote for or as if for sale.
- verb (transitive) To sell. “We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!”
- verb (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- verb (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
mart fair marketplace bazaar arcade sale market place grocery store grocery food market securities industry commercialize commercialise
Etymology
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); all ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“to trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Doublet of mart. Cognate with West Frisian merk (“market”), Dutch markt, German Markt, Danish and Norwegian marked (“market”), Faroese and Icelandic markaður (“market”), Swedish marknad (“market”).
Topographic surname for someone who lived by a market.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
- noun A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
- verb To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- verb 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.
Etymology [Akin to D. markt, OHG. markat, merkat, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place, fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain, acquire: cf. F. marché. See Merit, and cf. Merchant, Mart.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “market”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details