Definitions for markets

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markets mar·ket

Spelling: [mahr-kit]

IPA: /ˈmɑr kɪt/

Markets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 2 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 286 anagrams from letters in markets (aekmrst).

Definitions for markets

noun

1. an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace:
2. a store for the sale of food:
3. a meeting of people for selling and buying.
4. the assemblage of people at such a meeting.
5. trade or traffic, especially as regards a particular commodity:
6. a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity:
7. the field of trade or business:
8. demand for a commodity:
9. a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services:
10. a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used:
11. current price or value:
12. stock market.

Idioms

1. at the market, at the prevailing price in the open market.
2. in the market for, ready to buy; interested in buying:
3. on the market, for sale; available:

verb (used with object)

1. to carry or send to market for disposal:
2. to dispose of in a market; sell.

verb (used without object)

1. to buy or sell in a market; deal.
2. to buy food and provisions for the home.

Origin of markets

1100-1150; Middle English, late Old English Vulgar Latin *marcātus, Latin mercātus trading, traffic, market

Examples for markets

He expected European capitalism to evolve spontaneously into a market socialism of worker-owned cooperatives.

Tell briefly about the preparation of coffee for the market.

And I think he's going to whipsaw the market to a standstill this time, for sure.

He is an old hand, who knows the market and frankly manufactures for it.

Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.

As more people come online, the most basic tasks—such as going out to the market to sell produce—will become more efficient.

It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.

The fewer the marriageable girls, the higher their market value.

It occurred to him that he could sell them at a market store in the village.

Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.