Market definition

Market as a noun

1. the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

   "without competition there would be no market"

   Same sense: market place, marketplace

2. the customers for a particular product or service

   "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"

3. a marketplace where groceries are sold

   "the grocery store included a meat market"

   Same sense: food market, grocery, grocery store

4. the securities markets in the aggregate

   "the market always frustrates the small investor"

   Same sense: securities industry

5. an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

   Same sense: market place, marketplace, mart

Market as a verb

6. engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of

   "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"

7. buy household supplies

   "We go marketing every Saturday"

8. deal in a market

9. make commercial

   Same sense: commercialize, commercialise

Synonyms and antonyms

• market place
• marketplace
• food market
• grocery
• grocery store
• securities industry
• mart
• commercialize
• commercialise

All synonyms of market, sense by sense

How to say market

Market has 2 syllables and rhymes with newmarket. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with market

• newmarket
• upmarket
• patriarchate
• premarket
• remarket

MARKET in word games

Scrabble

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Words With Friends

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Anagrams

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Is MARKET a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check MARKET in the word checker, or unscramble MARKET to see the shorter words in its letters.