1. [n]  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. [n]  a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market"
3. [n]  the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor"
4. [n]  the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"
5. [v]  make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life"
6. [v]  engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"
7. [v]  deal in a market

Market
A look at six markets around the world in such places as the Andes, central Africa, Morocco, and New York City. Some of the items being sold include sweaters, wood carvings, cattle, and bowls made from used tires. Color illustrations accompany the text. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Best Illustrated Children`s Books of 1996.

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1. \Mar"ket\, n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. mark[=a]t,
   merk[=a]t, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place,
   fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis,
   ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain,
   acquire: cf. F. march['e]. See {Merit}, and cf. {Merchant},
   {Mart}.]
   1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place,
      for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions,
      wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by
      auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
            He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes,
            and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. --Shak.
            Three women and a goose make a market. --Old Saying.
   2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large
      building, where a market is held; a market place or market
      house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
            There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.
                                                  --John v. 2.
   3. An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by
      price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country,
      where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's
      wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that
      region; India is a market for English goods.
            There is a third thing to be considered: how a
            market can be created for produce, or how production
            can be limited to the capacities of the market. --J.
                                                  S. Mill.
   4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull
      market; a slow market.
   5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market
      price. Hence: Value; worth.
            What is a man If his chief good and market of his
            time Be but to sleep and feed ?       --Shak.
   6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a
      public market.
   Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming
         compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market
         day, market folk, market house, marketman, market
         place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market
         woman, and the like.
   {Market beater}, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.]
      --Chaucer.
   {Market bell}, a bell rung to give notice that buying and
      selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] --Shak.
   {Market cross}, a cross set up where a market is held.
      --Shak.
   {Market garden}, a garden in which vegetables are raised for
      market.
   {Market gardening}, the raising of vegetables for market.
   {Market place}, an open square or place in a town where
      markets or public sales are held.
   {Market town}, a town that has the privilege of a stated
      public market.
   

2. \Mar"ket\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Marketed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Marketing}.]
   To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for
   provisions or goods.
   

3. \Mar"ket\, v. t.
   To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a
   market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as,
   most of the farmes have marketed their crops.
         Industrious merchants meet, and market there The
         world's collected wealth.                --Southey.