as in commerce
the buying and selling of goods especially on a large scale and between different places nations struggling to compete in the global marketplace

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Recent Examples of marketplace The marketplace will decide how many screens there are. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025 Baker reacquired StubHub in 2020 for roughly $4 billion through his new company Viagogo, which operates a ticket marketplace in Europe. Annie Palmer, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025 The company plans to make its technology accessible through cloud marketplaces like AWS and Google Cloud, where customers can directly use the system on their own code. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025 In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marketplace
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Noun
  • Many assets generate valuable data and are integrated within broader ecosystems of energy, logistics, and commerce.
    Maurice Obeid, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Allmodern’s Racheal rug is a favorite of commerce editor Audrey Lee, who was looking for a low-pile wool rug that wouldn’t need constant vacuuming.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • He was acquired, along with closer Victor Vodnik, in a July 2023 trade with the Braves for reliever Pierce Johnson.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2025
  • European businesses will be closely watching that meeting, as China is the EU’s second-largest goods partner with trade standing at $732 billion euros in 2024.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, social media platforms drive roughly 80% of total online traffic in the country and serve as vital channels for business and communication.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Spend some time worrying about that thing that’s actually quite meaningless, getting mad at that person cutting me off in traffic?
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Marketplace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketplace. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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