1. A public area or building where many vendors and buyers gather to trade goods
   "Every Saturday morning the town's market is bustling with activity";
   - marketplace, market place, mart
    
2. The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
   "without competition there would be no market";
   - marketplace, market place
    
3. The customers for a particular product or service
   "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
    
4. A shop selling food and other household supplies
   "the grocery store included a meat market"; "the food market included a meat market"; "the mart included a meat market";
   - grocery store, grocery, food market, mart
    
5. The securities markets in the aggregate
   "the market always frustrates the small investor";
   - securities industry

1. Engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
   "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
    
2. Deal in a market
   "The company markets its products in over 100 countries"
    
3. [N. Amer] Buy household supplies
   "We go marketing every Saturday"
    
4. Make commercial
   "Some Amish people have marketed their way of life";
   - commercialize, commercialise [Brit]

Derived forms: marketing, markets, marketed

Type of: activity, alter, change, class, deal, industry, mercantile establishment, merchandise, merchandize, modify, outlet, retail store, sales outlet, sell, shop, social class, socio-economic class, stratum, trade

Encyclopedia: Market