Synonyms: market, market place, marketplace
Definition: the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
Usage: without competition there would be no market; they were driven from the marketplace
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: grocery, grocery store, food market, market
Definition: a marketplace where groceries are sold
Usage: the grocery store included a meat market
Similar words: market, market place, marketplace, mart
Definition: an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
Synonyms: market, market place, marketplace, mart
Definition: an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
Similar words: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet
Definition: a place of business for retailing goods
Synonyms: market, securities industry
Definition: the securities markets in the aggregate
Usage: the market always frustrates the small investor
Similar words: industry
Definition: the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
Usage: each industry has its own trade publications
Synonyms: market
Definition: the customers for a particular product or service
Usage: before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it
Similar words: social class, socio-economic class, class, stratum
Definition: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
Usage: the working class; an emerging professional class
Synonyms: commercialise, commercialize, market
Definition: make commercial
Usage: Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: market
Definition: engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
Usage: The company is marketing its new line of beauty products
Similar words: trade, merchandise
Definition: engage in the trade of
Usage: he is merchandising telephone sets
Synonyms: market
Definition: deal in a market
Similar words: trade, sell, deal
Definition: do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
Usage: She deals in gold; The brothers sell shoes
Synonyms: market
Definition: buy household supplies
Usage: We go marketing every Saturday