different between market vs merchantable
market
English
Etymology
From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié, modern marché); both ultimately from Latin merc?tus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”), from the Italic root *merk-, possibly stemming from Etruscan, referring to various aspects of economics. Cognate with Old Frisian merkad, merked, marked, market (“market”), Middle Dutch market, marct (“market”), Old High German markat (“market”), Old Norse markaðr (“market”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m??k?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m??k?t/, /?m??k?t/
- Hyphenation: mar?ket
Noun
market (plural markets)
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
- 1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action
- The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
- 1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action
- City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
- A grocery store
- A group of potential customers for one's product.
- There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.
- A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- (obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
Synonyms
- bazaar
- fair
- mart
- arcade
Derived terms
Related terms
- mart
- mercantile
- merchant
Descendants
- ? Bengali: ??????? (marke?)
- ? Hindi: ??????? (m?rke?)
- ? Japanese: ????? (m?ketto)
- ? Kannada: ????????? (m?ruka??e)
- ? Korean: ?? (maket)
- ? Oriya: ???????? (marke?)
- ? Persian: ?????? (mârket)
- ? Urdu: ??????? (marke?)
Translations
Verb
market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)
- (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
- (transitive) To sell
- We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
- (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Derived terms
- marketeer
Related terms
- marketer
- marketing campaign
Translations
References
- market at OneLook Dictionary Search
- market in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- market in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Finnish
Noun
market
- Alternative form of marketti
Declension
Anagrams
- kermat
Old French
Alternative forms
- markiet
Etymology
See marchié.
Noun
market m (oblique plural markés, nominative singular markés, nominative plural market)
- (Old Northern French) market; venue where goods are bought and sold
Polish
Etymology
From English market.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mar.k?t/
Noun
market m inan
- market (grocery store)
Declension
Further reading
- market in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- market in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Turkish
Etymology
From English market.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??.cet/
Noun
market (definite accusative marketi, plural marketler)
- market
Declension
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merchantable
English
Etymology
merchant +? -able
Adjective
merchantable (comparative more merchantable, superlative most merchantable)
- Fit for the market, i.e. suitable for selling for an ordinary price. Sometimes, this is a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
- March 1858, Nathan Clifford in the United States Supreme Court, Leonard v. Davis 66 U.S. 476
- The defendants pleaded the general issue, with notice of the set-off, averring that but a part of the logs ever came to their possession, and of this part but a few were merchantable, the balance of them being worthless, and claiming damages for the inferior quality of the logs.
- March 1858, Nathan Clifford in the United States Supreme Court, Leonard v. Davis 66 U.S. 476
Antonyms
- unmerchantable
Related terms
- unmerchantable
- merchantability
Translations
References
- merchantable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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