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# market

noun (market, markets); verb (market, markets, marketed, marketing)

«market» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A market is a place, often outdoors with stalls, where people buy and sell food and other things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#m1)
2. The market for something is how many people want to buy it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#m2)
3. The stock market is where people buy and sell parts of companies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#m3)
4. To market something is to tell people about it so they buy it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#m4)

### In the lessons

a setting for buying and selling: prices, amounts sold, money left; in everyday life: farmers' markets, the Saturday market, «supermarket»; in social studies: sellers set prices, buyers choose; phrases: «on the market» (for sale), «market stall», «go to market»

### Examples

- She bought 3 kg of apples at the market. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x1)
- At the market eggs cost $2 a dozen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x2)
- He sold 25 melons at the market. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x3)
- How much did she spend at the market? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x4)
- We buy fresh vegetables at the farmers' market. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x5)
- The market stalls sell fruit, cheese and flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x6)
- Their old house is on the market. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x7)
- The company marketed the new toy on TV. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x8)
- This little piggy went to market. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x9)
- Next day the mother went to market. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#x10)

### Note

A story word; buying takes money away, selling brings it in. Change = money paid − cost. «Market» is countable (two markets). A supermarket is a big shop, not an outdoor market.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «market» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«market» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/market.html) on Mova free.