| market penetration | the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market |
pastime
interest pursuit | a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly), sailing is her favorite pastime, his main pastime is gambling, he counts reading among his interests, they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits |
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 |
| 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 |
| fixed intonation | the intonation of keyboard instruments where the pitch of each note is fixed and cannot be varied by the performer |
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 |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
| 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 |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
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 |
read-only memory
ROM
read-only storage
fixed storage | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed |
| 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 |
egoism
egocentrism
self-interest
selfoncern
selfenteredness | concern for your own interests and welfare |
opportunism
self-interest self-seeking
expedience | taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others |
sake
interest | a reason for wanting something done, for your sake, died for the sake of his country, in the interest of safety, in the common interest |
| interest interestingness | the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.), they said nothing of great interest, primary colors can add interest to a room |
| fixed phagocyte | a phagocyte that does not circulate in the blood but is fixed in the liver or spleen or bone marrow etc. |
interest
involvement | a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something, an interest in music |
| 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 |
| market letter | a newsletter written by an analyst of the stock market and sold to subscribers |
mantissa
fixed-point part | the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the mantissa is . |
fixed-point notation
fixed-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention |
typewriter font
constant-width font
fixed-width font
monospaced font | a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) |
interest
interest group | (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims, the iron interests stepped up production |
| special interest | an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor |
| vested interest | groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit |
brokerage
brokerage firm
securities firm | a stock broker's business, charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller |
| market securities industry | the securities markets in the aggregate, the market always frustrates the small investor |
| bear market | a market characterized by falling prices for securities |
| bull market | a market characterized by rising prices for securities |
| money market | a market for short-term debt instruments |
European Union
EU
European Community
EC
European Economic Community
EEC
Common Market
Europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members, he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union |