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marketplace
/ˈmɑɹkətˌpleɪs/
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What does marketplace mean?
noun
- An open area in a town housing a public market.
- The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.
- The world of commerce and trade.
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noun
- (figuratively) A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmɑɹkətˌpleɪs/
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And now that we're engaged you seem to desire that our first tte- occur in the Marketplace!
The marketplace gives an excellent indicator of the difference between their crude compost and the worm casts.
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I have been i’ th’ marketplace; and, sir, ’tis fit You make strong party or defend yourself By calmness or by absence.
When he was thirty years of age, Cleomenes, king of the Lacedaemonians, surprised Megalopolis by night, forced the guards, broke in, and seized the marketplace.
The economy is market oriented with most decisions made by private individuals and business firms and with government purchases of goods and services made predominantly in the marketplace.