market; marketplace; market place




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"

Type of:
  • activity

Types:
  • black market
  • buyer's market; buyers' market; soft market
  • grey market; gray market
  • seller's market; sellers' market
  • labor market
  • monopoly
  • monopsony
  • oligopoly


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