market

Definition

  • noun: a place where products are bought and sold
  • noun: a meeting together of people for the purpose of trade by private purchase and sale and usually not by auction
  • verb: to do things that cause people to know about and want to buy (something)
  • verb: to expose for sale in a market
  • used to describe how many people want to buy something
  • synonyms: traffic, worth, nundinal

Examples

  • They found a ready 'market for' their products. [=they easily found many people who wanted to buy their products]

  • When he tried to sell his car he found out that its 'market value' was much lower than he had expected.

  • He believes that housing prices should be determined by 'the market' without government interference.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I'll take the Pepsi Challenge... with that Amsterdam shit any old day of the fucking week. That's a bold statement. This ain't Amsterdam, Vince. This is a seller's market. Coke is fucking dead as... dead. Heroin is coming back in a big fucking way. All right, give me three grams of madman. (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction