Definition of market

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Market (n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market..

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Arbitrage :: Arbitrage (n.) A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets..
Market :: Market (n.) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
Regrate :: Regrate (v. t.) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense..
Traffic :: Traffic (v.) Commodities of the market.
Sculpin :: Sculpin (n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa..
Roundfish :: Roundfish (n.) Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes..
Lapwing :: Lapwing (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea..
Vent :: Vent (n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
Bull :: Bull (v. t.) To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4..
Merchandise :: Merchandise (n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities..
Lafayette :: Lafayette (n.) A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States..
Average :: Average (n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets..
Haggler :: Haggler (n.) One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.
Nundination :: Nundination (n.) Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling.
Stationer :: Stationer (a.) A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere..
Grazier :: Grazier (n.) One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market..
Engrosser :: Engrosser (n.) One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.
Pool :: Pool (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool..
Homograph :: Homograph (n.) One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful..
Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
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