Country vs Market - What's the difference?
country | market |
(label) An area of land; a district, region.
* 2010 , David Vann, The Observer , 7 Mar 2010:
A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, species etc.
* 2007 , Chris Moss, The Guardian , 17 Feb 2007:
The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
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* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 3:
* 2010 , The Economist , 3 Feb 2011:
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*:I was borne and brought up in the Countrie , and amidst husbandry.
* 2000 , Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian , 4 Mar.:
Country music.
(label) The rock through which a vein runs.
From or in the countryside or connected with it.
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Of or connected to country music.
City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
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* Definition used by famous economist of the Austrian school, Ludwig Von Mises, in his book
A group of potential customers for one's product.
* (John Stuart Mill) (1608-1674)
A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
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, title= The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
(label) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
To sell
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
As nouns the difference between country and market
is that country is an area of land; a district, region while market is city square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.As an adjective country
is from or in the countryside or connected with it.As a verb market is
to make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.country
English
Noun
(countries)- We walk along flat, open country , red dirt and spinifex grass, a few short trees.
- This is condor country - the only region this far east where you can see the magnificent vulture - and a small national park straddling the passes, El Condorito, is a good stopover for walkers and birders.
George Goodchild
- It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter.
- These days corporate Germany looks rather different. Volkswagen, the country ’s leading carmaker, wants to be the world’s biggest by 2018.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries' by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax ' countries , is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.}}
- I have always thought that one of the main reasons for the popularity of blood sports in the country is the pointlessness of going outdoors with no purpose or destination in mind.
Derived terms
/* Derived terms */ * country mile * countryside * countrywide * high country * old countrySee also
*Adjective
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* 1000 English basic words ----market
English
(wikipedia market)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’}}
Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …, passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
Human Action.
- The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
- 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.
Turn it off, passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets , […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}
- What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?
Synonyms
* bazaar * fair * martDerived terms
* bear market * black market * bull market * commodity market * common market * Common Market * currency market * down-market * drug on the market * fair market value * factor market * farmers market * financial market * flea market * free market * housing market * market basket * market bell * market bubble * market capitalization * market clearing * market correction * market cycle * marketing * market economy * market failure * market garden * market index * market jitters * market maker * market microstructure * market opening * market order * market overhang * marketplace * market portfolio * market price * market research * market return * market risk * market sector * market share * market sweep * market tone * market value * mass-market * mini market * money market * on the market * open market * stock market * supermarket * primary market * product market * secondary market * test-marketVerb
(en verb)- We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter .
- ''We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!
