Market

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.

II. Market ·noun Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.

III. Market ·vi To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

IV. Market ·noun The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.

V. Market ·noun 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.

VI. Market ·vt 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.

VII. Market ·noun A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, ·etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.

VIII. Market ·noun An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; 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.