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marketplace

marketplace

199 3.2
A place where businesses compete to sell goods and services to customers
  • noun
  • /ˈmɑrkɪtˌpleɪs/
translation icon : mercado
  • In the current healthcare marketplace, the risks of allowing inducements outweigh the benefits.
  • global marketplace
  • electronic marketplace
  • competitive marketplace

He said your value in the marketplace has not been priced yet.

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Examples

  • In today's digital marketplace, many consumers prefer to shop online for convenience.

  • Marketing starts with an unfulfilled need in the marketplace and figures out how to plug it.

  • But we must remember the marketplace does only one thing.

  • Now in the world of the marketplace, value was in relationships.

  • The energy in this marketplace and this region in general.

  • But you want choices and what the marketplace provides is those choices.

  • And the problem I saw in the marketplace was that finance is boring.

  • As a result, many contractors seeking new business opportunities in the government marketplace turn to state and local markets.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Park Shark is a marketplace for parking spots.

  • All of your competitors are desperate to get to the marketplace with this technology before you.

Synonyms

business
vsmarketplace
1.0

Buying and selling goods or services to make money

describes the whole commercial sphere where many companies compete and trade
market
vsmarketplace
1.0

The activity of buying and selling goods and services

emphasizes the commercial sphere where companies compete to sell goods
commerce
vsmarketplace
121 2.7

Buying and selling goods and services on a large scale

focuses on the commercial sphere including company competition at various scales

Compounds

A busy market full of color, people, and noise

An outdoor place where people sell food and crafts

A social situation where people look for romantic or sexual partners and compete

How Big

marketplace
199 3.2
market town
  • UK
1 3.1

Surface Forms

marketplace singular
marketplaces plural

Morphology

marketplace = market + place (semi-transparent) = market + place

The components 'market' + 'place' are clear, but the abstract sense 'sphere of commercial activity' is a metaphorical extension requiring conceptual generalization.

Etymology

Marketplace comes from the parts market meaning 'trade' and place meaning 'location'. So it literally named the place for buying and selling, and that is why we now use it for the whole business world where companies compete.