The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Market \Mar"ket\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marketed; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Marketing.]
   To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for
   provisions or goods.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Market \Mar"ket\, n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. mark[=a]t,
   merk[=a]t, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place,
   fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis,
   ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain,
   acquire: cf. F. march['e]. See Merit, and cf. Merchant,
   Mart.]
   1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place,
      for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle,
      provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and
      not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every
      week; a farmers' market.
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            He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares
            At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Three women and a goose make a market. --Old Saying.
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   2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large
      building, where a market is held; a market place or market
      house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
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            There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.
                                                  --John v. 2.
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   3. An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as
      shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market
      for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in
      that region; India is a market for English goods; there
      are none for sale on the market; the best price on the
      market.
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            There is a third thing to be considered: how a
            market can be created for produce, or how production
            can be limited to the capacities of the market. --J.
                                                  S. Mill.
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   4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull
      market; a slow market.
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   5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market
      price. Hence: Value; worth.
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            What is a man
            If his chief good and market of his time
            Be but to sleep and feed?             --Shak.
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   6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a
      public market.
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   7. A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in
      which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where
      the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey
      market.
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   Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming
         compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market
         day, market folk, market house, marketman, market
         place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market
         woman, and the like.
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   Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.]
      --Chaucer.

   Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and
      selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] --Shak.

   Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held.
      --Shak.

   Market garden, a garden in which vegetables are raised for
      market.

   Market gardening, the raising of vegetables for market.

   Market place, an open square or place in a town where
      markets or public sales are held.

   Market town, a town that has the privilege of a stated
      public market.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Market \Mar"ket\, v. t.
   To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a
   market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as,
   most of the farmes have marketed their crops.
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         Industrious merchants meet, and market there
         The world's collected wealth.            --Southey.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

market
    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, marketplace, market place]
    2: the customers for a particular product or service; "before
       they publish any book they try to determine the size of the
       market for it"
    3: a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store
       included a meat market" [syn: grocery store, grocery,
       food market, market]
    4: the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always
       frustrates the small investor" [syn: market, securities
       industry]
    5: an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is
       set up [syn: marketplace, market place, mart, market]
    v 1: engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution
         of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty
         products"
    2: buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday"
    3: deal in a market
    4: make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their
       way of life" [syn: commercialize, commercialise,
       market]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

144 Moby Thesaurus words for "market":
   Dow-Jones Industrial Average, Wall Street, agora, auto show,
   balance of trade, bazaar, be in, big business, bill of sale,
   boat show, browse, business, business dealings, buy and sell, call,
   campo, carriage trade, carry, clientage, clientele, close out,
   commerce, commercial affairs, commercial complex,
   commercial relations, competitive market, convert into cash,
   custom, cut under, deal in, dealing, dealings, demand, dump,
   effect a sale, emporium, exchange, exposition, fair, fair trade,
   flea fair, flea market, forum, free trade, furnish, give,
   go marketing, go shopping, handle, hawk, industry, intercourse,
   job, long market, make a sale, make available, market cross,
   market index, market overt, marketing, marketplace, mart,
   mass market, mercantile business, merchandise, merchandising,
   merchantry, move, multilateral trade, open market, outlet,
   patronage, peddle, piazza, place, plaza, public, purchasing public,
   reciprocal trade, resell, restraint of trade, retail, retailing,
   rialto, rural market, sacrifice, sale, sales, sell, sell off,
   sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short,
   sell up, sell wholesale, selling, shop, shopping center,
   shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, showroom, small business,
   spotty market, square, staple, steady market, stiff market,
   stock market, stock price index, store, street market,
   strong market, suburban market, supermarket, the business world,
   the market, the marketplace, ticker market, tie-in,
   top-heavy market, trade, trade fair, trade in, traffic, traffic in,
   truck, turn into money, turn over, turnover, undercut, undersell,
   unilateral trade, unload, unsteady market, vend, weak market,
   wholesale, wholesaling, wholesome, window-shop, youth market



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

MARKET. A public place appointed by public authority, where all sorts of
things necessary for the subsistence, or for the conveniences of life, are
sold.
     2. Markets are generally regulated by local laws.
     3. By the term market is also understood the demand there is for any
particular article; as, the cotton market in Europe is dull. Vide 15 Vin.
Ab. 42; Com. Dig. h.t.