Market n. 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, markets, fairs." "Three women and a goose make a market."
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."
3.An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; 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; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market. "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."
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 market of his time Be but to sleep and feed?"
6.(Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
7.A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market. Note: 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.)
Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. (Eng.)
Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held.
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.
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