different between marketplace vs genericide

English

Alternative forms

• market place

Etymology

market +? place

Noun

marketplace (plural marketplaces)

1. An open area in a town housing a public market.
2. The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.

   Some high-street retailers were slow to enter the new digital marketplace of the Internet.

3. (by extension) The world of commerce and trade.
4. (figuratively) A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.
   • 2000, Jason A. Frank, John Tambornino, Vocations of Political Theory (page 239)

     While political theory frequently appears condemned to nostalgic reflection, cultural studies often dulls its critical edge in the never-ending stampede to document the newest styles and counterstyles of the cultural marketplace.

Related terms

• market square

Translations

English

Etymology

From generic +? -cide.

Noun

genericide (plural genericides)

1. (rare, nonstandard) The act or process of letting a trademark term become so common that the trademark is indefensible.
2. (rare, nonstandard) The process by which trademark rights are diminished or lost as a result of common use in the marketplace.

See also

• brand
• registered trademark
• servicemark
• trademark

Further reading

• published use: Trademark Dilution: Federal, State, and International Law By David S Welkowitz