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mar·ket

market

 
 
pronunciation:
mar kiht
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part of speech: noun
definition 1: A market is a place where people buy and sell things.
Elijah and his family go to the farmers' market every weekend to buy vegetables.
 
synonyms:
shop, store
similar words:
business, exchange, supermarket
definition 2: A market for a product is the desire to buy it that people have, or the set of people who want to buy a certain thing. If there is no market for a product, then no one wants to buy it. When there is a market for shorts in the summer, it means that many people want to buy shorts in the summer.
The market for swim suits go down a lot in the winter, but it goes back up in the summer.There is a large market for fruits from Mexico in the United States. Every year, Americans buy billions of fruits from Mexico such as avocados, berries, and grapes.
synonyms:
demand
similar words:
need, requirement
derivations: marketeer (n.), marketer (n.)
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