Market vs Firm - What's the difference?
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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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(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.
(UK, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
(business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.
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steadfast, secure, hard (in position)
* It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.
fixed (in opinion)
* He was firm that selling his company would a good choice and didn't let anyone talk him out of it.
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solid, rigid (material state)
To make firm or strong; fix securely.
To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
To become firm; stabilise.
To improve after decline.
Aust. To shorten (of betting odds).
In transitive terms the difference between market and firm
is that market is to sell while firm is to make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.In intransitive terms the difference between market and firm
is that market is to deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods while firm is Aust. To shorten (of betting odds).As an adjective firm is
steadfast, secure, hard (in position.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.’}}
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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!
Derived terms
* marketeerfirm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.
Etymology 2
(etyl) ferme, from (etyl) ferme, from (etyl) .Adjective
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