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• mar´ket|a|bly — mar|ket|a|ble «MAHR kuh tuh buhl», adjective. 1. that can be sold; salable: »Farmers therefore use less time and less food to bring stock to marketable weight (Science News). 2. of or having to do with buying or selling. –mar´ket|a|bly, adverb …   Useful english dictionary

• mar|ket|a|ble — «MAHR kuh tuh buhl», adjective. 1. that can be sold; salable: »Farmers therefore use less time and less food to bring stock to marketable weight (Science News). 2. of or having to do with buying or selling. –mar´ket|a|bly, adverb …   Useful english dictionary

• mar|ket|a|bil|i|ty — «MAHR kuh tuh BIHL uh tee», noun. the quality of being marketable: »Voting rights would substantially increase the marketability of the shares (Wall Street Journal) …   Useful english dictionary

• mar|ket|er — «MAHR kuh tuhr», noun. 1. a person who goes to market: »They could not walk side by side in that throng of marketers women with shopping baskets, women pushing... (New Yorker). 2. a person who buys or sells in a market: »Happily for the marketers …   Useful english dictionary

• mar|ket|ing — «MAHR kuh tihng», noun, adjective. –n. 1. the act or fact of trading in a market; buying or selling: »Marketings for the first two days of the week dwindled to the lowest point for a like period in more than three years (Wall Street Journal). 2.… …   Useful english dictionary

• mar|ket|man — «MAHR kiht MAN», noun, plural men. 1. a man who sells in a market. 2. a person who buys in a market …   Useful english dictionary

• mar|ket|wise — «MAHR kiht WYZ», adverb. 1. with regard to the stock market: »The steel news yesterday had virtually no effect marketwise (Baltimore Sun). 2. in the market; commercially:»Mr. Morgan…hopes that chemical products (other than cellulose) derived from …   Useful english dictionary

• mar|ket|place — market place, or mar|ket|place «MAHR kiht PLAYS», noun. 1. the place where a market is held, usually an open space or a square in a town: »In open market place produced they me, To be a public spectacle to all (Shakespeare). 2. the world of… …   Useful english dictionary

• black-mar|ket — black market, 1. the selling of goods or currency at unlawful prices or in unlawful quantities. 2. the place where such selling is done or the organization that does it. black mar|ket «BLAK MAHR kiht», adjective, verb. –adj. of or having to do… …   Useful english dictionary

• down-mar|ket — «DOWN MAHR kiht», adjective, adverb. Especially British. –adj. of or for the lower income consumer; of lower grade or quality: »They still make first class cutlery in Sheffield. But downmarket imports are threatening to flood the market… …   Useful english dictionary

• free´-mar´ket — free market, a market in which prices are controlled by supply and demand, without governmental regulation or restriction. –free´ mar´ket, adjective …   Useful english dictionary