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Noun: market economy
  1. An economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices
    "The United States is often cited as an example of a market economy";
    - free enterprise, private enterprise, laissez-faire economy

Derived forms: market economies

Type of: economic system, economy

Encyclopedia: Market economy