marketplace

mar·ket·place

noun \ˈmär-kət-ˌplās\

Definition of MARKETPLACE

1

a : an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held b : market <the marketplace is the interpreter of supply and demand>

2

: the world of trade or economic activity : the everyday world <a conviction that religion belongs in the marketplace — Current Biography>

3

: a sphere in which intangible values compete for acceptance <the marketplace of ideas>

Examples of MARKETPLACE

1. Their products must compete in the marketplace.
2. The company has struggled to survive in a rapidly changing marketplace.

First Known Use of MARKETPLACE

14th century

Related to MARKETPLACE

Synonyms: business, commerce, trade, traffic

Related Words: free trade; black market, gray market; dealings, horse-trading; e-tail, merchandising, retailing, wholesaling; bartering

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Rhymes with MARKETPLACE

about-face, aerospace, anyplace, boniface, bouillabaisse, carapace, catalase, cellulase, commonplace, contrabass, cyberspace, database, diabase, diastase, double-space, elastase, everyplace, hydrolase, hydrospace, hyperspace, interface, interlace, interspace, invertase, kilobase, lemures, lowercase, oxidase, pillowcase, reductase, Samothrace, single-space, steeplechase, thoroughbass, thoroughbrace, triple-space, uppercase