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 →

2) The market for something is how many people want to buy it. tree →

3) The stock market is where people buy and sell parts of companies. tree →

4) To market something is to tell people about it so they buy it. tree →

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 →
• At the market eggs cost $2 a dozen. tree →
• He sold 25 melons at the market. tree →
• How much did she spend at the market? tree →
• We buy fresh vegetables at the farmers' market. tree →
• The market stalls sell fruit, cheese and flowers. tree →
• Their old house is on the market. tree →
• The company marketed the new toy on TV. tree →
• This little piggy went to market. tree →
• Next day the mother went to market. tree →

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.
• At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips.
• "Market correction" means a big fall in prices on the markets.
• In Europa Universalis 5 each location produces one raw material and trade flows to the markets that pull hardest.
• Europa Universalis 5 passes trade from one market to the next in a chain, which is close to how the routes really worked.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «market» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.