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Market place   /mˈɑrkət pleɪs/   Listen
Market place

noun
1.
An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.  Synonyms: market, marketplace, mart.
2.
The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold.  Synonyms: market, marketplace.  "They were driven from the marketplace"






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"Market place" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Clones is built on an eminence and is reached by a serious flight of steps; it looks down on the ancient cross which stands in the market place. This church is being repaired and was therefore open, so I climbed the long flight of steps and went in to see it. It certainly is being greatly improved. A grand ceiling has replaced the old one, a fine organ and stained glass windows add to the glory of the house. I had ...
— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall

... one of the busiest towns in the Ohio Valley," says Uncle George, but he remembers New Orleans as the market place where almost all ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... said to him in French. "You have no other duties of course; so each day you shall buy in the market place at Dunkirk, with American money. And I shall become a delivery boy and bring out food for mademoiselle, and ...
— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... her head incredulously; but Tom bravely kept his word. For the next few weeks Tom was at his post bright and early, and the garden was never kept in better order. Every morning Tiger and Tom stood faithfully in the market place with their baskets, and never gave up, no matter how warm the day, till the last vegetable was sold, and the money placed faithfully in ...
— Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys • Various

... that as every day he passed before her house on his way to the market place, that she would be upon her balcony, dressed as handsomely as possible, in order that when he passed he might notice her beauty, and so be led to desire those favours which would ...
— One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles • Various


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