Noun:
1: marketplace, market the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"
2: securities industry, market the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor"
3: market the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
4: grocery store, market, food market, grocery a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market"
Verb:
1: market engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
2: market buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday"
3: market deal in a market
4: commercialise, commercialize, market make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life"