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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

... companion, the canon, had run across a former chorister from the cathedral of Valencia, who could find nothing to do but loiter night and day about the Gallery. Through him Brull had learned of the life led by these journeymen of art, always on hand in the "marketplace", waiting for the employer ...

— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... popular expression of "being a false Blake."] was killed by the tumultuous rebels. The common people believe that from one of the deep cellars under this house proceeds a subterranean passage to the so-called "Nun's Hill." At midnight the neighboring inhabitants still hear a roaring under the marketplace, as if of the sudden falling of a cascade. The better informed explain it as being a concealed natural water-course, which has a connection with the neighboring river. In our time the old house is become a manufactory; the broken windows, the ...

— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen

... unaccustomed light. The wooden houses, with their jutting stories and quaint gable-peaks; the doorsteps and thresholds, with the early grass springing up about them; the garden-plots, black with freshly-turned earth; the wheel-track, little worn, and, even in the marketplace, margined with green on either side;—all were visible, but with a singularity of aspect that seemed to give another moral interpretation to the things of this world than they had ever borne before. And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered ...

— Hawthorne - (English Men of Letters Series) • Henry James, Junr.

... two met in the marketplace, and amidst their followers they began to dispute and to argue about the existence or the non-existence of the gods. And after ...

— The Madman • Kahlil Gibran

... of action, and 'decide' to adopt as the overruling law for ourselves, that we shall do nothing which will make duty harder for our brethren. Paul habitually settled small matters on large principles, and brought the solemnities of the final account to bear on the marketplace ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

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