Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun market

5 senses of market

Sense 1
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")
       => activity -- (any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity")

Sense 2
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")
       => class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class -- (people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class")

Sense 3
grocery store, grocery, food market, market -- (a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market")
       => marketplace, market place, mart, market -- (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)

Sense 4
market, securities industry -- (the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor")
       => industry -- (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "each industry has its own trade publications")

Sense 5
marketplace, market place, mart, market -- (an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up)
       => mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet -- (a place of business for retailing goods)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb market

4 senses of market

Sense 1
market -- (engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products")
       => trade, merchandise -- (engage in the trade of; "he is merchandising telephone sets")

Sense 2
market -- (buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday")
       => shop -- (do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday")

Sense 3
market -- (deal in a market)
       => deal, sell, trade -- (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes")

Sense 4
commercialize, commercialise, market -- (make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")