| market penetration | the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market |
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 |
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 |
| ready-made | a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase, their apartment was furnished with ready-mades |
| ready-to-wear | ready-made clothing, she couldn't find anything in ready-to-wear that she liked |
| 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 |
reckoner
ready reckoner | a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation |
| 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 |
| ready-mix | a commercial preparation containing most of the ingredients for a dish |
| 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 |
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 |
| market analyst | an analyst of conditions affecting a market (especially the stock market) |
| market strategist | someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns |
shopkeeper
tradesman
storekeeper
market keeper | a merchant who owns or manages a shop |
market value
market price | the price at which buyers and sellers trade the item in an open marketplace |
ready cash
cold cash
ready money | money in the form of cash that is readily available, his wife was always a good source of ready cash, he paid cold cash for the TV set |
| market forces | the interaction of supply and demand that shapes a market economy |
| ready | poised for action, their guns were at the ready |