| market place | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. market, market place, marketplace, mart | an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up. |
| ~ public square, agora | a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece. |
| ~ bazar, bazaar | a street of small shops (especially in Orient). |
| ~ food market, grocery, grocery store, market | a marketplace where groceries are sold.; "the grocery store included a meat market" |
| ~ mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet | a place of business for retailing goods. |
| ~ market square, open-air market, open-air marketplace | a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold. |
| ~ slave market | a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War). |
| ~ agora | the marketplace in ancient Greece. |
| n. (act) | 2. market, market place, marketplace | 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" |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ business enterprise, business, commercial enterprise | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects.; "computers are now widely used in business" |
| ~ 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.; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask any price you like" |
| ~ 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. |
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