| market penetration | the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market |
labor
labour
toil | productive work (especially physical work done for wages), his labor did not require a great deal of skill |
manual labor
manual labour | labor done with the hands |
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 |
labor of love
labour of love | productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation |
| 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 |
DIP switch
dual inline package switch | (computer science) one of a set of small on-off switches mounted in computer hardware, used in place of jumpers to configure the machine for a user |
divided highway
dual carriageway | a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions, in Britain they call a divided highway a dual carriageway |
| dual scan display | a type of passive matrix display in which the top and bottom half of the screen are refreshed simultaneously |
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 |
labor camp
labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
labor
labour
working class
proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages, there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field |
labor party
labour party | a left-ofenter political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people |
British Labour Party
Labour Party Labour Labor | a political party formed in Great Britain in , characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries |
International Labor Organization
International Labour Organization
ILO | the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor |
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 |
| 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 |
| flea market | an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles |
| market cross | a cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted |
| market town | a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times |