Marketplace

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  marketplace \marketplace\ n.
     1. an area in a town where a public market is set up; a
        {market place}; a {market}[2].
  
     Syn: mart.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. The commercial activity whereby good and services are
        exchanged; as, without competition there would be no
        market.
  
     Syn: market.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. The mechanism by which one finds a person to whom to sell
        or from whom to buy goods; the opportunity to buy and
        sell; a {market}[3]; as, to put one's goods on the market.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  marketplace
       n 1: the world of commercial activity where goods and services
            are bought and sold; "without competition there would be
            no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"
            [syn: {market}]
       2: an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is
          set up [syn: {mart}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "marketplace":
     agora, amphitheater, arena, athletic field, auditorium, auto show,
     background, bazaar, bear garden, boat show, bowl, boxing ring,
     bull ring, campo, campus, canvas, circus, cockpit, coliseum,
     colosseum, commercial complex, course, emporium, exposition, fair,
     field, flea fair, flea market, floor, forum, ground, gym,
     gymnasium, hall, hippodrome, lists, locale, market, market cross,
     market overt, mart, mat, milieu, open forum, open market,
     palaestra, parade ground, piazza, pit, place, platform, plaza,
     precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, range, rialto, ring,
     scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, shopping center,
     shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, site, sphere, square,
     squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, staple,
     street market, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard,
     trade fair, walk, wrestling ring
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Market-place
     any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad
     street (Matt. 11:16; 20:3), as well as a forum or market-place
     proper, where goods were exposed for sale, and where public
     assemblies and trials were held (Acts 16:19; 17:17). This word
     occurs in the Old Testament only in Ezek. 27:13.
     
       In early times markets were held at the gates of cities, where
     commodities were exposed for sale (2 Kings 7:18). In large towns
     the sale of particular articles seems to have been confined to
     certain streets, as we may infer from such expressions as "the
     bakers' street" (Jer. 37:21), and from the circumstance that in
     the time of Josephus the valley between Mounts Zion and Moriah
     was called the Tyropoeon or the "valley of the cheesemakers."