market
- noun
- /ˈmɑrkɪt/
- Understanding your target market is essential for launching a successful advertising campaign.
- target market
- market share
- niche market
Why wouldn't you want to tap into that market full blast?
- Why wouldn't you want to tap into that market full blast?
- All these trade shows, they all have their own market, OK.
- Next market, the market is who are we selling to?
- I'm saying there is a market there for some of you.
- And all of a sudden the pumpkin market is devastated.
- You want to win in this market, stop doing follow up.
- Well, we can fill the market gap in Asia with this product.
- to start because we want to test the market, right. I think it's only,
- We had some casting issues, we had some product market fit issues.
- They're just not seeing a market in the in machine learning.
- So if I behave less morally, again market share OK.
- That would mean that I wasn't good and the market spoke straight up.
- And that's where I was best the market, not somebody's judgment.
- I don't think there's a market for a Romney.
Examples
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I really wasn't in the market for a partner, but we have a mutually beneficial situation here.
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Some people think you have to be in a big market to get good legal work.
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Women will enter the job market in higher numbers.
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The rest of the jobs market is starting to slow.
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Developing products without thinking about their markets is a classic way of going broke.
Academic text (1999) -
But we can get you into the mass market faster than anyone else could.
Fiction book (1994) -
Our research said she'd do well in the L.A. market.
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There have been big changes in the romance market since the boom times of the early 1980s.
Academic text (2011) -
We dominate the running shoe market, Sonny.
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China's growth promises to provide an expanded market for Russian mineral exports.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
A group of people most likely to buy a product or use a service
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A system where people and businesses buy and sell goods and prices are set by supply and demand
An outdoor market where people who grow food sell fresh fruit and vegetables directly to customers
The price people pay for something like shares or houses when it is bought and sold freely
- Specialized
A time when stock prices rise and many people who buy shares feel confident
- Specialized
A time when stock prices fall a lot and people expect them to keep falling
- Specialized
A market where banks and companies trade short-term government or business loans
A market where local farmers sell fresh fruit and vegetables directly to people
- Specialized
The total value of a company's shares when you multiply the current share price by the number of shares
- Specialized
A place where buyers and sellers agree to exchange goods later at a fixed price
A time when more things are for sale than people want, so people who buy can get lower prices
- Specialized
A market where people buy and sell raw materials like oil, grain and metals, often for future delivery
- Archaic
A group of European countries that removed limits on trade and worked together economically
- Specialized
A person who studies financial markets and advises investors about buying and selling
A market where more buyers want things for sale than sellers have, so sellers can ask higher prices
- Specialized
A study of a market to find its size, trends, and customer needs to help businesses make decisions
- Specialized
A place where people buy and sell things like oil or currency to be delivered right away
- Formal
A way of running an economy that lets businesses compete with little government control
A person who studies markets and advises investors on trading and investments
- Specialized
A request to buy or sell shares immediately at the current price through a broker
- Specialized
A market where people buy and sell shares directly by phone or computer
- Specialized
A number that shows how prices of selected stocks change over time
- Literature
Belief that markets without government rules best solve economic and social problems
- US
A place where goods are sold without manufacturer permission, often cheaper and without warranty
- Specialized
An economy where the government decides what is made and sets prices instead of markets
- Specialized
A place where people trade stocks and bonds directly, not on an exchange
A market where more goods are for sale than there are buyers, so buyers can get lower prices
- Specialized
A market where people buy and sell contracts to deliver goods or money later
- Texting
An online site where many sellers offer goods and buyers can compare and buy
- Offensive
A place where employers quickly judge job seekers like products
- Jargon
A platform on the blockchain where users lend or borrow digital coins to earn interest
When more people want to buy than there are things, people who offer them have the advantage
An organized place where people buy and sell company shares and other investments
How Big
- Jargon
Surface Forms
Etymology
Market comes from the Latin mercatus 'trade' and is related to merchant, so it can mean the customers or buyers a seller looks for. That's why a company's 'market' means the people who might buy its product.