marketplace

marketplace

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English

Alternative forms

  • market place, (archaic) market-place

Etymology

From market +‎ place.

Pronunciation

Noun

marketplace (plural marketplaces)

  1. An open area in a town housing a public market.
  2. The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.
  3. (by extension) The world of commerce and trade.
    • 2021, Judith Rainhorn, The Colour of Controversy..., p. 10:
      Endorsing the liberal anti-interventionist credo that the marketplace should act as the "site of verification," the advocates of white lead opposed government intervention for the sake of open economic competition, which they claimed revealed its true value and thus should be the sole determinant: "When the railways were built, the stage coaches disppeared; they died a timely death. If zinc white is truly superior to white lead, it will kill us in the marketplace, but the government should not intervene." These were the words of Expert-Bezançon, in his February 1903 deposition to the parliamentary committee examining the bill for banning lead-based pigments in paint.
  4. (figurative) A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.
    marketplace of ideas

Derived terms

Related terms

  • market square

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