OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 681

market

/ˈmɑːkɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mercado • plaza • zoco
A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘[…] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’
del mercado
A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.
The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 682

market

/ˈmɑːkɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comercializar • marketear • marketinear • poner al mercado
To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.