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# market

«market» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place, often outdoors with stalls, where people buy and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A market is a place, often outdoors with stalls, where people buy and sell food and other things. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/#m4)

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

### In the corpora

- [People argue whether the banana is a clever joke about money and art or proof that the art market is silly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/11/)
- [At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/0/)
- ["Market correction" means a big fall in prices on the markets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/19/)
- [In Europa Universalis 5 each location produces one raw material and trade flows to the markets that pull hardest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/6/)
- [Europa Universalis 5 passes trade from one market to the next in a chain, which is close to how the routes really worked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «market» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/market/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.