market

  1. Noun.  City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
  2. Noun.  An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site.
  3. Noun.  A group of potential customers for one's product.
  4. Noun.  A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exist.
  5. Noun.  A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
  6. Noun.  The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To sell.
  9. Adjective.  Relating to a (commercial) market.

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