English word market comes from Old English (ca. 450-1100) market, Old Northern French markiet
Detailed word origin of market
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| market | Old English (ca. 450-1100) (ang) | |
| markiet | Old Northern French (fro-nor) | |
| market | Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) | |
| market | English (eng) | (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.. (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.. (transitive) To sell (obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.. A geographical […] |
Words with the same origin as market
- market
- [12] The Latin word for ‘goods to be
sold’ was merx (source of English commerce,
merchant, and mercury). From it was derived the
verb mercārī ‘buy’, and its past participle
produced the noun mercātus ‘trade, market’. In
Vulgar Latin this became *marcātus, which was
adopted into early Middle English as market.
The now seldom used synonym mart [15] comes
from early modern Dutch mart, a variant of
markt ‘market’.
=> COMMERCE, MART, MERCHANT, MERCURY* * *
The word derives from Latin mercari, ‘to trade,’ with this also the source of English merchant and mercenary.
The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins.
2013.
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Concept[edit | edit source]
The word ‘market’ has been derived from the Latin word «Mercatus» which means to trade, merchandise or a place where business is transacted.
When used in general sense, market means a place where goods and services are purchased and sold. Thus buyers and sellers meet in the market for buying and selling the goods.
When used in dynamic sense, market may also include the following:
- an area of operation;
- any organization by which the exchange of goods is effected;
- the art of buying and selling; and
- inhabitants of the country, example take the market of any country. It refers to the total population of that country and its aggregate purchasing power.
Definitions[edit | edit source]
According to Chapman, «the term market refers not to a place but a commodity or commodities and buyers and sellers who are in different competition with one another».[1]
According to Philip Kotler, «market is the set of actual and potential buyers of a product».[2]
- ↑ Chapman, Economics
- ↑ Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong, Principles of Marketing,1999,p.9.
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noun
an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers’ market.
a store for the sale of food: a meat market.
a meeting of people for selling and buying.
the assemblage of people at such a meeting.
trade or traffic, especially as regards a particular commodity: the market in cotton.
a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity: the cotton market.
the field of trade or business: the best shoes in the market.
demand for a commodity: an unprecedented market for leather.
a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services: the health-food market.
a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used: the foreign market; the New England market.
current price or value: a rising market for shoes.
verb (used without object)
to buy or sell in a market; deal.
to buy food and provisions for the home.
verb (used with object)
to advertise (something) to a target audience or for a recommended use: The vacation homes are marketed to retirees and other seniors.This movie was marketed as a horror film, rather than a drama.
to carry or send to market for disposal: to market produce every week.
to dispose of in a market; sell.
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Idioms about market
at the market, at the prevailing price in the open market.
in the market for, ready to buy; interested in buying: I’m in the market for a new car.
on the market, for sale; available: Fresh asparagus will be on the market this week.
Origin of market
First recorded in 1100–1150; Middle English market, market(t)e, markat(t)e, late Old English market, from Vulgar Latin marcātus (assumed), from Latin mercātus “trading, traffic, market”; see origin at merchant
OTHER WORDS FROM market
mar·ket·er, nounmul·ti·mar·ket, adjectivenon·mar·ket, noun, adjectivepre·mar·ket, verb
re·mar·ket, verb (used with object)sub·mar·ket, nounun·der·mar·ket, verb (used with object)un·mar·ket·ed, adjectivewell-mar·ket·ed, adjective
Words nearby market
markdown, marked, markedly, marker, marker gene, market, marketable, marketable title, market abuse, market analysis, market basket
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How to use market in a sentence
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Bauer has never played professionally in a market such as Los Angeles before, never played in a clubhouse as established and accomplished as that of the Dodgers.
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The brand’s soft voice in the market was compounded by a siloed approach to marketing investment.
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When you buy frozen veggies at the market, make sure you can move the individual veggies around in the bag.
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Franchises are still trying out ways to market teams to their assigned cities.
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In terms of consumer attitudes and behavior, there has never been a single force that has so significantly shaped the home improvement market.
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It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
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Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
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Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
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Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
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Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.
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When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
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The declaration of war, or cessation thereof, used to be proclaimed in the market by the High Bailiff.
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His partner, Boulton, had a lot ready for the market, and sold 150 by the end of the year.
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It was, moreover, of a very poor colour and certainly not of the kind that would readily find a market.
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Lovers our little Dorothy had by the score, though she was never seen but at church or at market.
British Dictionary definitions for market
noun
- an event or occasion, usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise
- (as modifier)market day
a place, such as an open space in a town, at which a market is held
a shop that sells a particular merchandisean antique market
the market business or trade in a commodity as specifiedthe sugar market
the trading or selling opportunities provided by a particular group of peoplethe foreign market
demand for a particular product or commoditythere is no market for furs here
at market at the current price
be in the market for to wish to buy or acquire
on the market available for purchase
play the market
- to speculate on a stock exchange
- to act aggressively or unscrupulously in one’s own commercial interests
buyer’s market a market characterized by excess supply and thus favourable to buyers
seller’s market a market characterized by excess demand and thus favourable to sellers
verb -kets, -keting or -keted
(tr) to offer or produce for sale
(intr) to buy or deal in a market
Derived forms of market
marketer, noun
Word Origin for market
C12: from Latin mercātus; from mercāri to trade, from merx merchandise
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Other Idioms and Phrases with market
see corner the market; drug on the market; flea market; in the market for; on the market; play the market; price out of the market.
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