<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.</li><li>a store for the sale of food: a meat market.</li><li>a meeting of people for selling and buying.</li><li>the assemblage of people at such a meeting.</li><li>trade or traffic, especially as regards a particular commodity: the market in cotton.</li><li>a body of persons carrying on extensive transactions in a specified commodity: the cotton market.</li><li>the field of trade or business: the best shoes in the market.</li><li>demand for a commodity: an unprecedented market for leather.</li><li>a body of existing or potential buyers for specific goods or services: the health-food market.</li><li>a region in which goods and services are bought, sold, or used: the foreign market; the New England market.</li><li>current price or value: a rising market for shoes.</li><li>stock market.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to buy or sell in a market; deal.</li><li>to buy food and provisions for the home.</li><li>(used with object) to advertise (something) to a target audience or for a recommended use: This movie was marketed as a horror film, rather than a drama. The vacation homes are marketed to retirees and other seniors.</li><li>to carry or send to market for disposal: to market produce every week.</li><li>to dispose of in a market; sell.</li><li>Synonyms: peddle, merchandise, vend.</li></ul>