market

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A public gathering held for buying and selling goods or services.
• noun An open space or a building where goods or services are offered for sale by multiple sellers.
• noun A store or shop that sells agricultural produce.
• noun A system of exchange in which prices are determined by the interaction of multiple, competing buyers and sellers.
• noun A similar system in which information or ideas are evaluated by multiple competing interests.
• noun The buyers and sellers for a particular good or service or within a particular region.
• noun The business transacted between such sellers and buyers.
• noun The price of a particular good or service as determined by supply and demand.
• noun The demand for a particular commodity.
• noun A standing commitment to buy and sell a given security at stated prices.
• noun A subdivision of a population considered as consumers.
• noun The market price.
• intransitive verb To offer for sale.
• intransitive verb To try to make (a product or service) appealing to particular groups of consumers; promote by marketing.
• intransitive verb To deal in a market; engage in buying or selling.
• intransitive verb To buy household supplies.
• idiom (in the market) Interested in buying.
• idiom (on the market) Available for buying.
• idiom (on the market) Up for sale.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun On the stock-exchange, one of the classes into which the business of the exchange is divided; a group of jobbers engaged in a particular kind of business.
• noun An occasion on which goods are publicly exposed for sale and buyers assemble to purchase; the meeting together of people for selling and buying at private sale, as distinguished from an auction, where the sale is public.
• noun A public place or building where goods are exposed for sale; a market-place or market-house.
• noun The assemblage of people in a market: as, there was a large market to-day.
• noun A place of purchase and sale in general; a city, country, region, or locality where anything is or may be bought or sold: as, the home or foreign market (the country in which goods are produced, or that to which they are transported or from which they are brought); the American or British market; the London market.
• noun Traffic; trade; purchase or sale, or rate of purchase and sale; demand; hence, price; cost; worth; valuation: as, to make market; a ready market; a dull market; the market is low; there is no market for such goods.
• noun In English law: The franchise or liberty granted to or enjoyed by a municipality or other body to establish a place, usually in an open space, for the meeting of people to buy and sell under prescribed conditions.
• noun The assemblage of buyers and sellers on the day and within the hours appointed.
• To deal in a market; buy or sell; make bargains for provisions or goods.
• To carry to or sell in a market; make market or sale for; vend; sell: as, to market meat or vegetables; to market a crop.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction.
• noun A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
• noun An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable
• noun Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic
• noun The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
• noun (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
• noun A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists.
• noun [Obs.] a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart.
• noun [Eng.] a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin.
• noun a cross set up where a market is held.
• noun a garden in which vegetables are raised for market.
• noun the raising of vegetables for market.
• noun an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held.
• noun a town that has the privilege of a stated public market.
• intransitive verb To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
• transitive verb To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
• noun An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site