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: market, market place
- An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
- synonyms: market place, mart, market
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