Definitions
1.nounA gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic."The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh."
2.nounCity square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
3.nounA grocery store"Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk"
4.nounA group of potential customers for one's product."We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner."
5.nounA geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists."Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta."
6.nounA formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects."The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets."
7.nounThe sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
8.nounThe price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.