meat market
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1.1
- noun
- /miːt ˈmɑrkɪt/
- US
:
carnicería
- Produce and meat markets served as neighborhood meeting places.
- grocery and meat market
- meat market store
- local meat market
So he's like, Boss, Griselda just got killed coming from the meat market.
- So he's like, Boss, Griselda just got killed coming from the meat market.
- Fella came in, still a good friend of mine to this day, worked down in Smithfield Meat Market and he was right wing.
- There's no way We go to the meat market to see the Viper Queen.
- But Bryce and Hunt end up going to the meat market.
Examples
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But this place is a converted meat market.
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In the center of Dorking, we visited a meat market on one of the main streets.
Academic text (1994) -
During that time, he held a second job in a meat market.
Academic text (2000) -
Over at Taylor's Meat Market at night, the parking lot is really crowded.
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Question: I bought non-hydrogenated lard from a small Mexican meat market.
Blog text (17) -
Most of these animals were low-productivity cattle raised for the local meat market, fed during the agricultural season on dry maize leaves, or grazed on the borders of the family fields.
Academic text (1997) -
Uncle Fred was someone I saw at weddings and funerals and once in a while at Giovichinni's Meat Market, ordering a quarter pound of olive loaf.
Fiction book (2000) -
Through the smudged window of the meat market, Adams could see several men crating cartons from huge storage bins along the walls into the deep-freeze locker.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the center of Dorking, we visited a meat market on one of the main streets.
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Luckily, Fareway has a meat market close to where I live, and I buy pork there with confidence.
Synonyms
707
1.0
A place where people buy and sell food and other items
18
1.3
A shop that sells fresh meat and poultry, sometimes fish
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1.1
A shop or market that sells food and groceries
2
4.7
A shop where animals are killed and meat is prepared and sold
1
1.0
A shop that sells ready-to-eat meals and other food
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun compound is directly compositional: 'meat' (animal flesh for food) + 'market' (a place where goods are sold) yields a place where meat is sold. This pattern (NOUN + market) is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun meat market comes from places where butchers sold meat at busy stalls in a market, with pieces hanging or laid out for customers. So meat market means a 'shop' or place to buy meat today.