NOUN | artifact | market place, marketplace, mart, market | an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up |
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act | market place, market, marketplace | the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold |
Meaning | An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up. | |
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Synonyms | marketplace, mart, market | |
Narrower | agora, public square | A place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece |
agora | The marketplace in ancient Greece | |
bazaar, bazar | A street of small shops / shops (especially in Orient) | |
grocery store, grocery, food market, market | A marketplace where groceries are sold | |
open-air market, open-air marketplace, market square | A public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold | |
slave market | A marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War) | |
Broader | mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet | A place of business for retailing goods |
Spanish | mercado, plaza de mercado | |
Catalan | empori |
Meaning | The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold. | |
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Synonyms | market, marketplace | |
Parts | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business | The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects |
Narrower | black market | An illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls |
buyer's market, buyers' market, soft market | A market in which more people want to sell than want to buy | |
grey market, gray market | An unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency | |
labor market | The market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers | |
monopoly | (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller | |
monopsony | (economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer | |
oligopoly | (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices / prices and affect competitors | |
seller's market, sellers' market | A market in which more people want to buy than want to sell | |
Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
Spanish | mercado | |
Catalan | mercat |
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