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/mˈɑrkətplˌeɪs/ /mˈɑrkɪtplˌeɪs/ Listen

noun

marketplace n.

An area in a town where a public market is set up; a market place; a market (2).

Synonyms: mart.

The commercial activity whereby good and services are exchanged; as, without competition there would be no market.

Synonyms: market.

The mechanism by which one finds a person to whom to sell or from whom to buy goods; the opportunity to buy and sell; a market (3); as, to put one's goods on the market.

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Etymology of 'Marketplace'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Marketplace" Quotes from Famous Books

... heave, Betty thought it high time to change the subject. "We will not recall it," she said hastily. "Let us think on more agreeable topics. My father rode into Wancote this morning, to stroll about the marketplace and ...

— Tales from Many Sources - Vol. V • Various

... was true of moose skins and of the finer furs for apparel and ornament, and thus for many a long year honourable names and well-descended families were found among those who bought and sold and quarrelled and went to law in the spacious marketplace of Le Bas Canada, with the wide and only partially known or understood Atlantic rolling between them and the final court of appeal—His ...

— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... toast, sugar, nutmeg, and good Cheshire cheese. The hackin (the great sausage) must be boiled by daybreak, or else two young men must take the maiden (i.e. the cook) by the arms and run her round the marketplace till she is shamed of her laziness."—Round ...

— Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving • Washington Irving

... civilized land. The Muhammadan merchant, tinman, shoemaker, or vendor of trifles sits cross-legged on the floor and reaches after any article you may want to buy. You can rent a whole block of these pigeonholes for fifty dollars a month. The market people crowd the marketplace with their baskets of figs, dates, melons, apricots, etc., and among them file trains of laden asses, not much larger, if any, than a Newfoundland dog. The scene is lively, is picturesque, and smells like a police court. The Jewish money-changers have their ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... duke, having laid a complaint against Tsz-lu before Ki K'ang, an officer came to Confucius to inform him of the fact, and he added, "My lord is certainly having his mind poisoned by his kinsman Liau, but through my influence perhaps we may yet manage to see him exposed in the marketplace ...

— Chinese Literature • Anonymous

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