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Meaning of market

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  market
      n 1: the world of commercial activity where goods and services
           are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no
           market"; "they were driven from the marketplace" [syn:
           {market}, {marketplace}, {market place}]
      2: the customers for a particular product or service; "before
         they publish any book they try to determine the size of the
         market for it"
      3: a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store
         included a meat market" [syn: {grocery store}, {grocery},
         {food market}, {market}]
      4: the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always
         frustrates the small investor" [syn: {market}, {securities
         industry}]
      5: an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is
         set up [syn: {marketplace}, {market place}, {mart}, {market}]
      v 1: engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution
           of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty
           products"
      2: buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday"
      3: deal in a market
      4: make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their
         way of life" [syn: {commercialize}, {commercialise},
         {market}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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