n. [ Akin to D. markt, OHG. markāt, merkāt, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place, fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain, acquire: cf. F. marché. See Merit, and cf. Merchant, Mart. ] 1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares
At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Three women and a goose make a market. Old Saying. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool. John v. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market. [ PJC ]

☞ Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. --
Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. [ Eng. ] Shak. --
Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held. Shak. --
Market garden, a garden in which vegetables are raised for market. --
Market gardening, the raising of vegetables for market. --
Market place, an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held. --
Market town, a town that has the privilege of a stated public market. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Marketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Marketing. ] To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops. [ 1913 Webster ]

Industrious merchants meet, and market there
The world's collected wealth. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayed provisions are not marketable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Current in market; as, marketable value. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being marketable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Articles in, or from, a market; supplies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The activities required by a producer to sell his products, including advertising, storing, taking orders, and distribution to vendors or individuals. [ PJC ]

n. 1. an area in a town where a public market is set up; a market place; a market{ 2 }.
Syn. -- mart. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The commercial activity whereby good and services are exchanged; as, without competition there would be no market.
Syn. -- market. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. The mechanism by which one finds a person to whom to sell or from whom to buy goods; the opportunity to buy and sell; a market{ 3 }; as, to put one's goods on the market. [ PJC ]

n. [ Market + stead a place. ] A market place. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]