Definition of Market

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Market

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.

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.

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.

Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.

The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.

The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.

To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

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.

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Market Quotations

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
Andy Warhol

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
Jim Rohn

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
Peter Drucker

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry Ford

Market Translations

market in Afrikaans is mark
market in Danish is torv
market in Dutch is marktplein, markt, bazaar, marktplaats
market in Finnish is markkinat
market in German is Markt
market in Latin is venalicium
market in Norwegian is torg
market in Portuguese is mercado
market in Spanish is mercado

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