market place

DEFINITIONS OF: market place

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; agora, public square
a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece; bazaar, bazar
a street of small shops (especially in Orient); food market, grocery, grocery store, market
a marketplace where groceries are sold; market square, open-air market, open-air marketplace
a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold; slave market
a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War); agora
the marketplace in ancient Greece; farmer's market, green market, greenmarket
an open-air marketplace for farm products; greengrocery
a greengrocer's grocery store; souk
an open-air market in an Arabian city; supermarket
a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and household goods; flea market
an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles

Type of:: mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet
a place of business for retailing goods

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; black market
an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls; buyer's market, buyers' market, soft market
a market in which more people want to sell than want to buy; gray market, grey market
an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency; seller's market, sellers' market
a market in which more people want to buy than want to sell; labor market
the market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers; monopoly
(economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller; monopsony
(economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer; oligopoly
(economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors; corner
a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade

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