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MARKET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

Example:

they were driven from the marketplace

Synonyms:

market; market place; marketplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Meronyms (parts of "market"):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

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)

gray market; grey market (an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency)

seller's market; sellers' market (a market in which more people want to buy than want to sell)

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 and affect competitors)

Derivation:

market (make commercial)

market (engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A marketplace where groceries are sold

Example:

the grocery store included a meat market

Synonyms:

food market; grocery; grocery store; market

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

market; market place; marketplace; mart (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

Meronyms (parts of "market"):

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

greengrocery (a greengrocer's grocery store)

supermarket (a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods)

Derivation:

market (deal in a market)

market (buy household supplies)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

Synonyms:

market; market place; marketplace; mart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet (a place of business for retailing goods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

agora (the marketplace in ancient Greece)

slave market (a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War))

market square; open-air market; open-air marketplace (a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold)

food market; grocery; grocery store; market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

bazaar; bazar (a street of small shops (especially in Orient))

agora; public square (a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The securities markets in the aggregate

Example:

the market always frustrates the small investor

Synonyms:

market; securities industry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Meronyms (members of "market"):

securities market; stock exchange; stock market (an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers)

nondepository financial institution (a financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

bear market (a market characterized by falling prices for securities)

bull market (a market characterized by rising prices for securities)

the City (used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain)

the Street; Wall Street (used to allude to the securities industry of the United States)

money market (a market for short-term debt instruments)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The customers for a particular product or service

Example:

before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("market" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "market"):

black market (people who engage in illicit trade)

Derivation:

market (engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make commercial

Example:

Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life

Synonyms:

commercialise; commercialize; market

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "market" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

marketing (the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service)

marketable (fit to be offered for sale)

marketable (being in demand by especially employers)

marketable (capable of being marketed)

market (the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of

Example:

The company is marketing its new line of beauty products

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "market" is one way to...):

merchandise; trade (engage in the trade of)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "market"):

offer (make available for sale)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

market (the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold)

market (the customers for a particular product or service)

marketable (capable of being marketed)

marketable (fit to be offered for sale)

marketer (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deal in a market

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "market" is one way to...):

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

marketing (shopping at a market)

marketing (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Buy household supplies

Example:

We go marketing every Saturday

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "market" is one way to...):

shop (do one's shopping)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

market (a marketplace where groceries are sold)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Two drugs already on the market — an antifungal and a steroid — may potentially take on new roles as treatments for multiple sclerosis.

(Drugs that activate brain stem cells may reverse multiple sclerosis, NIH)

Phase IV trials are done using thousands of people after a treatment has been approved and marketed, to check for side effects that were not seen in the phase III trial.

(Clinical trial phase, NCI Dictionary)

While wheat and rice received research, extension and market support, on the supply side there was a marked shift away from coarse grains, which it says had negative consequences for dietary micronutrients.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

Many of the antibiotics that are currently on the market use the same method to damage bacterial DNA.

(DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein, National Institutes of Health)

An overreliance on this trade may have contributed to Norse Greenland’s collapse when the medieval market declined.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

The product is expected to undergo clinical testing by the end of next year and be made available in the market in 2020.

(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)

PC-SPES has been studied in the treatment of prostate cancer, but has been taken off the market in the U.S. because of safety concerns.

(PC-SPES, NCI Dictionary)

However, I’ll try and set up a trade in pots and pans, and you shall stand in the market and sell them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Imiglitazar causes hepatotoxicity, and has never been marketed.

(Imiglitazar, NCI Thesaurus)

Carbutamide was one of the first sulfonylurea compounds used but was withdrawn from the market due to toxic effects on bone marrow.

(Carbutamide, NCI Thesaurus)