| market penetration | the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market |
| housing start | the act of starting to construct a house |
| Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
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 |
butcher shop
meat market | a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold |
caparison
trapping housing | stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse |
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 |
| distributor housing | the housing that supports the distributor cam |
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 |
housing
lodging
living accommodations | structures collectively in which people are housed |
| housing | a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component |
lamp house
lamphouse
lamp housing | housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| tract housing | housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land |
| 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 |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
| 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 |
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing and Urban Development
HUD | the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal, created in |
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 |
market economy
free enterprise
private enterprise
laissez-faire economy | an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices |
| non-market economy | an economy that is not a market economy |
Federal Housing Administration
FHA | the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages |
| market | the customers for a particular product or service, before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it |
| black market | people who engage in illicit trade |
| housing development | a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management, they live in the new housing development |
| housing estate | a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time |
housing project
public housing | a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families |