📒 an occasion when people buy and sell goods; the open area or building where they meet to do this
- a fruit/flower/fish market
- an antiques market
- an indoor/a street market
📒 business or trade, or the amount of trade in a particular type of goods
- the world market in coffee
- They have increased their share of the market by 10 per cent.
- The firm will expand its size to claim more market share.
📒 a particular area, country or section of the population that might buy goods
- exporters who want to access the Japanese market
- Expansion into the global market brings more risk.
- They supply beef to the domestic market.
📒 the number of people who want to buy something
- a growing/declining market for second-hand cars
- There's not much of a market for tourist art on the island.
- New Zealand is competing in an international market for medical graduates.
📒 people who buy and sell goods in competition with each other
- The market will decide if the TV station has any future.
- a market-based/market-led/market-driven economy
- innovative products at the forefront of market trends
📒 the business of buying and selling shares in companies and the place where this happens; a stock exchange
- the futures market
- a market crash
- The market closed weaker.
📒 a situation in which there is a lot of a particular item for sale, so that prices are low and people buying have a choice
- In a buyer's market, the commodity is plentiful and so its price is not high.
📒 interested in buying something
- I'm not in the market for a new car at the moment.
📒 available for people to buy
- to put your house on the market
- The house came on the market last year.
- There are hundreds of different brands on the market.
📒 available to buy without any limits
📒 to buy and sell stocks and shares in order to make a profit
- He is a skilled investor who knows how to play the market—and win.
📒 to charge such a high price for your goods, services, etc. that nobody wants to buy them
- Some leading UK firms are pricing themselves out of the market.
📒 a situation in which people selling something have an advantage, because there is not a lot of a particular item for sale, and prices can be kept high
- In a seller’s market, demand exceeds supply, and prices are high.
📒 to stop something from being sold
- The slimming pills were taken off the market.
- Thousands of egg products were taken off the shelves following the health scare.