Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - market

~1 n 1 »PLACE TO BUY THINGS« a) a place where people buy and sell goods, especially in an open area or a large building  (There's a good antiques market here on Sundays. | I usually buy all my vegetables at the market. | street market (=with a lot of different people selling things from tables, stalls etc in the street)) b) AmE a shop that sells food and things for the home 2 the market a) the stock market  (Most analysts are forecasting a further downturn in the market. | play the market (=risk money on the stock market) | the markets (=stock markets around the world))  (The markets are nervous at the moment.) b) the total amount of trade in a particular kind of goods  (Honda is trying to increase its share of the market. | the art/diamond/bond etc market)  (The art market is rather depressed. | the market in)  (the world market in aluminum) c) the system in which all prices and wages depend on what goods people want to buy, how many they buy etc  (a naive belief in leaving everything to the market) 3 on the market available for people to buy  (There are thousands of different computer games on the market. | put a house/business etc on the market (=offer it for sale))  (We put our house on the market at the wrong time. | come onto the market (=become available for people to buy))  (a revolutionary new drug that has just come onto the market | on the open market (=generally available for people to buy without any official restrictions))  (In some areas, handguns were freely available on the open market.) 4 »COUNTRY/AREA« a particular country or area where a company sells its goods or where a particular type of goods is sold  (Our main overseas market is Japan. | cars intended for the domestic market) + for  (The main market for computer software is still in the US.) 5 »PEOPLE WHO BUY« the number of people who want to buy something, or the kind of people who want to buy it + for  (The market for specialist academic books is pretty small.) there is a market for (=people want to buy a product)  (There isn't much of a market for second-hand mainframe computers.) 6 be in the market for to be interested in buying something  (Several terrorist groups were believed to be in the market for nuclear technology.) 7 the job market/the labour market the number of jobs that are available  (The job market has been badly hit by the recession.) 8 a buyer's/seller's market a time that is better for buyers because prices are low, or better for sellers because prices are high  (- see also black market, flea market, corner the market corner2 (3), price yourself out of the market price2 (4)) ~2 v 1 to try to persuade people to buy a product by advertising it in a particular way, using attractive packages etc  (The success of any beauty product depends on the way it is marketed.) 2 to make a product available in shops  (The turkeys are marketed ready-to-cook.)