What is the meaning of market?

noun

• The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold.
  • usage: "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"
  • synonyms: marketplace, market place
• The customers for a particular product or service.
  • usage: "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
• A marketplace where groceries are sold.
  • usage: "the grocery store included a meat market"
  • synonyms: grocery store, grocery, food market
• The securities markets in the aggregate.
  • usage: "the market always frustrates the small investor"
  • synonyms: securities industry
• An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
  • synonyms: marketplace, market place, mart

verb

• Engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of.
  • usage: "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
• Buy household supplies.
  • usage: "We go marketing every Saturday"
• Deal in a market.
• Make commercial.
  • usage: "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life"
  • synonyms: commercialize, commercialise