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marketplace en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From market + place.

Meanings

1. An open area in a town housing a public market.
2. The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.
   • Some high-street retailers were slow to enter the new digital marketplace of the Internet.
3. (broadly) The world of commerce and trade.
   • Endorsing the liberal anti-interventionist credo that the marketplace should act as the "site of verification," the advocates of white lead opposed government intervention for the sake of open economic competition, which they claimed revealed its true value and thus should be the sole determinant: "When the railways were built, the stage coaches disppeared; they died a timely death. If zinc white is truly superior to white lead, it will kill us in the marketplace, but the government should not intervene." These were the words of Expert-Bezançon, in his February 1903 deposition to the parliamentary committee examining the bill for banning lead-based pigments in paint. 2021, Judith Rainhorn, The Colour of Controversy..., p. 10
4. (figuratively) A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.
   • While political theory frequently appears condemned to nostalgic reflection, cultural studies often dulls its critical edge in the never-ending stampede to document the newest styles and counterstyles of the cultural marketplace. 2000, Jason A. Frank, John Tambornino, Vocations of Political Theory, page 239:
   • So I have seen this controversy from both sides, and I truly believe that the most important factor is the preservation of the Internet's potential for becoming the new neutral marketplace of ideas that is so needed for the revitalization of American democracy. 2007, Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 268:
   • marketplace of ideas

Forms

Deriveds

sexual marketplace · cybermarketplace · nonmarketplace · darknet marketplace · e-marketplace · assassination marketplace

Relateds

market square

Synonyms

emporium

Translations (96)

ja 市場 (open area in a town housing a public market) · fr marché (the world of commerce and trade) · ru ры́ночная пло́щадь (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · ota سوق (open area in a town housing a public market) · la macellum (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · ru ры́нок (open area in a town housing a public market) · hu piactér (open area in a town housing a public market) · ru би́ржа (figurative:place or sphere for the exchange of anything) · sh tr̀žnica (open area in a town housing a public market) · da markedsplads (open area in a town housing a public market) · fi kauppatori (open area in a town housing a public market) · it mercato (open area in a town housing a public market) · fa-ira بازار (the world of commerce and trade) · gl praza (open area in a town housing a public market) · gl campo da feira (open area in a town housing a public market) · be ры́нак (the world of commerce and trade) · sce baza (open area in a town housing a public market) · pl targowisko (open area in a town housing a public market) · ru ры́ночная пло́щадь (open area in a town housing a public market) · uk база́р (open area in a town housing a public market) · fr place du marché (open area in a town housing a public market) · pl rynek (the world of commerce and trade) · de Marktplatz (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · hu vásárhely (open area in a town housing a public market) · non kaupangr (open area in a town housing a public market) · nn marknadsplass (open area in a town housing a public market) · ga log margaidh (open area in a town housing a public market) · cmn 草市 (open area in a town housing a public market) · ru база́р (open area in a town housing a public market) · nn torg (open area in a town housing a public market) · ms pekan (open area in a town housing a public market) · be база́р (open area in a town housing a public market) · ny msika (open area in a town housing a public market) · fi markkinapaikka (figurative:place or sphere for the exchange of anything) · uk ри́нок (open area in a town housing a public market) · fa-ira چارْسوق (open area in a town housing a public market) · ru база́рная пло́щадь (open area in a town housing a public market) · pt mercado (open area in a town housing a public market) · hu vásártér (open area in a town housing a public market) · uk ри́нок (the world of commerce and trade) · ru ры́нок (figurative:place or sphere for the exchange of anything) · bg тържи́ще (open area in a town housing a public market) · fi markkinapaikka (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · id lokapasar (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · pl rynek (open area in a town housing a public market) · bg паза́рен площа́д (open area in a town housing a public market) · be ры́нак (open area in a town housing a public market) · nb torg (open area in a town housing a public market) · hu piac (open area in a town housing a public market) · fi markkinat (the world of commerce and trade) · ms pasar (open area in a town housing a public market) · fr marché (open area in a town housing a public market) · id lokapasar (the world of commerce and trade) · fo sølutorg (open area in a town housing a public market) · got 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (open area in a town housing a public market) · hu piac (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · la forum (open area in a town housing a public market) · pl bazar (open area in a town housing a public market) · fr place du marché (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · sh тр̀жница (open area in a town housing a public market) · ja 草市 (open area in a town housing a public market) · eo bazaro (open area in a town housing a public market) · cmn 市井 (open area in a town housing a public market) · is markaðstorg (open area in a town housing a public market) · ru маркетпле́йс (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · fr marketplace (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · pl rynek (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · ota سوق (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · sv marknad (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · mk пазар (open area in a town housing a public market) · ru база́рная пло́щадь (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · la mercātus (open area in a town housing a public market) · got 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌻 (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · pl rynek (figurative:place or sphere for the exchange of anything) · fa-ira بازار (open area in a town housing a public market) · pl targ (open area in a town housing a public market) · nb markedsplass (open area in a town housing a public market) · mk тр́говија (the world of commerce and trade) · sa पण्यशाला (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · sv marknad (the world of commerce and trade) · fr marché (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · ru ры́нок (the world of commerce and trade) · cs tržiště (open area in a town housing a public market) · ja 墟市 (open area in a town housing a public market) · de Marktplatz (the world of commerce and trade) · gl mercado (open area in a town housing a public market) · fi tori (open area in a town housing a public market) · hi हाट (open area in a town housing a public market) · tpi bungples (space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates) · grc ἀγορά (open area in a town housing a public market) · tpi bungples (open area in a town housing a public market) · de Marktplatz (open area in a town housing a public market) · es mercado (open area in a town housing a public market) · cmn 市場 /市场 (open area in a town housing a public market) · sv marknadsplats (open area in a town housing a public market) · ota بازار (open area in a town housing a public market)