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Webster 1913 Edition
Market
Mar′ket
,Noun.
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,
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
Be but to sleep and feed?
If his chief good and
market
of his timeBe 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 cropsIndustrious merchants meet, and
The world's collected wealth.
market
thereThe world's collected wealth.
Southey.
Webster 1828 Edition
Market
M`ARKET
,Noun.
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.