(n.) A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; 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.
(n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
(n.) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
(n.) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
(v. i.) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
(v. t.) To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(2) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(3) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(4) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(5) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(6) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(7) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(8) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(9) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(10) Furthermore, the backing away from any specific yield targets is exactly the lack of clarity that the FX market will not like."
(11) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(12) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(13) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(14) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(15) The history of tobacco production and marketing is sketched, and the literature on chronic diseases related to smoking is summarized for the Pacific region.
(16) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(17) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
(18) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(19) UK agriculture, it argues, “is much more dependent on EU markets than the EU is on the UK”.
(20) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
Mercantile
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This financial mercantilism - which is foreign banks retreating to their home base - will, if we do nothing, lead to a new form of protectionism," he said.
(2) Jason Conibear, market analyst at forex specialists, Cambridge Mercantile, argues that Obama will be breathing a sigh of relief, even though US economic growth is slowing: American consumers are getting skittish again, but with the giant economy's output still creeping upwards, politicians and policymakers will find the perfect excuse to do nothing.
(3) The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has a wide variety of “weather derivatives” available for trade if you’re interested including “temperature ranges, snowfall amounts and frost”.
(4) Eurosceptic Bambi and his party refuse deeper collaboration with the EU on space, recoil before the overt mercantilism of the Americans and so think China offers a blank cheque book.
(5) Destined for a dusty shelf next to the Watney Cup, the Texaco Cup and the Anglo-Scottish Cup, the little-known Mercantile Credit Football Festival was part of the Football League's spectacular centenary celebrations in 1988.
(6) NOTTINGHAM FOREST'S FINEST HOUR (APART FROM THOSE EUROPEAN CUPS AND LEAGUE TITLES, OBVIOUSLY) "What on earth was the Mercantile Credit Football Festival?"
(7) This is where the word comes from – they were the first réfugiés , giving England a bold shot of craft skill, mercantile know-how and financial expertise.
(8) To underscore the project's connection to the city's carbon hungry past, the hearings were held in Manchester Town Hall, Alfred Waterhouse's neo-gothic cathedral to manufacturing and mercantilism.
(9) They impoverish not just the poor but the mercantile and professional classes, denying them contact with the outside world.
(10) Inheriting White Star from his father, his first act as owner had been to sell it to the Wall Street behemoth J Pierpont Morgan, who included it in the portfolio of his interests known as International Mercantile Marine.
(11) However, the companies need it for mercantilism, to sell and get profit.
(12) Major shareholders Toscafund, Schroders and River & Mercantile, who together control 43.9% of Findel, have already agreed to vote against Sports Direct.
(13) This stage of the nineties, framed in financial scarcity, mercantilization of knowledge and social and economic changes in general taking place in the country, favors an utilitarian-profitable-selective-competitive-privatized research, with emphasis on the technological.
(14) "This type of intervention strengthens the belief… that the aim of the ecological movement is simply to maintain the status quo of the world economy," one columnist wrote in the Monitor Mercantil newspaper last week, adding that "Cameron's colonialist message" was an attempt to "exterminate the future of Brazil".
(15) Whether it is trade wars , a significant trade contest, whether it is mercantilism more generally, whether is a much more combative militaristic approach – who knows what he will actually do?
(16) The repressive shoguns had, from 1630, cut off Japan from the outside world; enforcing feudal structures, they also brought peace after a long period of civil war, and the population was released to pursue cultivated activities, which quickly became an obsession of the mercantile middle classes.
(17) Cities may have mercantile exchange as one of their reasons for being, but once people are lured to a place for work, they need more than offices, gyms and strip clubs to really live.
(18) The mercantile spirit of Kashgar lives on however, at the livestock section, shunted a few miles south of town.
(19) Updated at 2.54pm BST 2.44pm BST Tres Knippa , a trader on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , says investors simply aren't worried about the government shutdown.
(20) If Miliband were as radical as his aide, Jon Cruddas, wants him to be , he would set aside Adonis's worthy mercantilism and ponder how genuinely to re-energise the old industrial cities.