| market penetration | the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
marketing research
market research | research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer |
| market analysis | marketing research that yields information about the marketplace |
| survey study | a detailed critical inspection |
time and motion study
time-and-motion study
time-motion study
motion study
time study
work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
| case study | a detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view |
course course of study
course of instruction
class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings, he took a course in basket weaving, flirting is not unknown in college classes |
| directed study | a course of study that is supervised and controlled by a specialist in the subject, he registered for directed study, he got credit for directed study, he did directed study |
| work-study program | an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study |
| home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
| market gardening | the growing of vegetables or flowers for market |
market capitalization
market capitalisation | an estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share |
market
marketplace
market place | the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold, without competition there would be no market, they were driven from the marketplace |
| black market | an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls |
buyer's market
buyers' market
soft market | a market in which more people want to sell than want to buy |
grey market
gray market | an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency |
seller's market
sellers' market | a market in which more people want to buy than want to sell |
| labor market | the market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers |
butcher shop
meat market | a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold |
commodity exchange
commodities exchange
commodities market | an exchange for buying and selling commodities for future delivery |
| curb market | a stock market for trading in securities not listed on the New York Stock Exchange |
farmer's market
green market
greenmarket | an open-air marketplace for farm products |
futures exchange
futures market
forward market | a commodity exchange where futures contracts are traded |
grocery store
grocery
food market
market | a marketplace where groceries are sold, the grocery store included a meat market |
| market garden | a garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing |
marketplace
market place
mart
market | an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up |
open-air market
open-air marketplace
market square | a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold |
over-theounter market
OTC market | a stock exchange where securities transactions are made via telephone and computer rather than on the floor of an exchange |
sketch
study | preliminary drawing for later elaboration, he made several studies before starting to paint |
| slave market | a marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War) |
| spot market | a market in which a commodity is bought or sold for immediate delivery or delivery in the very near future |
stock exchange
stock market
securities market | an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers |
| study | a room used for reading and writing and studying, he knocked lightly on the closed door of the study |
| study hall | a classroom reserved for study |
| brown study | a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness |
| study | a state of deep mental absorption, she is in a deep study |
| study work | applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading), mastering a second language requires a lot of work, no schools offer graduate study in interior design |
cogitation
study | attentive consideration and meditation, after much cogitation he rejected the offer |
| nature study | the study of animals and plants in the natural world (usually at an elementary level) |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
Orientalism
Oriental Studies | the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people |
| literary study | the humanistic study of literature |
| market order | an order to a broker to sell or buy stocks or commodities at the prevailing market price |
stock index
stock market index | index based on a statistical compilation of the share prices of a number of representative stocks |
course of study
program programme curriculum
syllabus | an integrated course of academic studies, he was admitted to a new program at the university |
| market letter | a newsletter written by an analyst of the stock market and sold to subscribers |
| study | a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique, a study in spiccato bowing |
report study
written report | a written document describing the findings of some individual or group, this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale |
| case study | a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure |