marketplace

CEFRB2

/mˈɑrkəˌtpleɪs/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A place or system where goods and services are bought and sold.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.

Examples

  • Companies must be able to survive in the marketplace.

  • Please tell me where the marketplace is.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings
  1. The world of commerce and trade.

  2. An open area in a town housing a public market.

  3. A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.

More examples

In context
  • When it reaches the marketplace our product will go like hot cakes.

  • Some high-street retailers were slow to enter the new digital marketplace of the Internet.

  • 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 a...

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Origin

noun

From market + place.