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/mˈɑrkətplˌeɪs/ /mˈɑrkɪtplˌeɪs/ Listen

noun

marketplace n.

An area in a town where a public market is set up; a market place; a market (2).

Synonyms: mart.

The commercial activity whereby good and services are exchanged; as, without competition there would be no market.

Synonyms: market.

The mechanism by which one finds a person to whom to sell or from whom to buy goods; the opportunity to buy and sell; a market (3); as, to put one's goods on the market.

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Etymology of 'Marketplace'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Marketplace" Quotes from Famous Books

... that, by so doing, it was less sinful. The general rehearsals at the private theatre were points of light in my school life; they took place in a back building, where the lowing of the cows might be heard; the street- decoration was a picture of the marketplace of the city, by which means the representation had something familiar about it; it amused the inhabitants to ...

— The True Story of My Life • Hans Christian Andersen

... as soon as war comes, the nation in danger instinctively adopts whatever measure of Socialism can be introduced during the temporary inhibition of capitalistic methods. The actual coming of war induces a brief panic in the marketplace, and during this momentary paralysis of private acquisitors the State makes a desperate attempt to subdue their activities to its own needs. By the mere instinct of self-preservation it clutches at some rudiment of ...

— The World in Chains - Some Aspects of War and Trade • John Mavrogordato

... to it; for a moment's forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant forces from without. The simplest lie to myself, buried though it may be in the silence of my soul, may yet be as dangerous to my inner liberty as an act of treachery on the marketplace. And from the moment that my inner liberty is threatened, destiny prowls around my external liberty as stealthily as a beast of prey that has ...

— Wisdom and Destiny • Maurice Maeterlinck

... Testaments, telling them that his brethren were hypocrites and false guides, who by keeping them in ignorance of the word and will of Christ were leading them to the abyss. Upon receiving this information, I instantly sallied forth to the marketplace, and that same night succeeded in disposing of upwards of thirty Testaments. The next morning the house was entered by the two factious Curas; but upon my rising to confront them they retreated, and I heard no more of them, except that they publicly cursed me in the church more than once, ...

— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow

... chanced that in the marketplace his eye lit on a certain fine boy whom he knew could not be of the country, & asking him his name gat for answer that he was called Olaf and his father Tryggvi Olafson and his mother Astrid, the daughter of Eirik Biodaskalli. Thus did Sigurd learn ...

— The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) • Snorri Sturluson

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