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Webster 1913 Edition


Market

Mar′ket

,
Noun.
[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
.
He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares
At wakes, and wassails, meetings,
markets
, fairs.
Shakespeare
Three women and a goose make a
market
.
Old Saying.
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.
There is at Jerusalem by the sheep
market
a pool.
John v. 2.
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.
4.
Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic;
as, a dull
market
; a slow
market
.
5.
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
What is a man
If his chief good and
market
of his time
Be but to sleep and feed?
Shakespeare
6.
(Eng. Law)
The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
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.
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.

Mar′ket

,
Verb.
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.

Mar′ket

,
Verb.
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
.
Industrious merchants meet, and
market
there
The world's collected wealth.
Southey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Market

M`ARKET

,
Noun.
[L. mercatus, from mercor,to buy.]
1.
A public place in a city or town, where provisions or cattle are exposed to sale; an appointed place for selling and buying at private sale, a distinguished from an auction.
2.
A public building in which provisions are exposed to sale; a market-house.
3.
Sale; the exchange of provisions or goods for money; purchase or rate of purchase and sale. The seller says he comes to a bad market, when the buyer says he comes to a good market. We say, the markets are low or high; by which we understand the price or rate of purchase. We say that commodities find a quick or ready market; markets are dull. We are not able to find a market for our goods or provisions.
4.
Place of sale; as the British market; the American market.
5.
The privilege of keeping a public market.

M`ARKET

,
Verb.
I.
To deal in market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

Definition 2024


märket

märket

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Swedish

Noun

märket

  1. definite singular of märke