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As nouns the difference between market and sho

is that market is city square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise while sho is a Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.

As a verb market

is to make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

As an adverb sho is

nonstandard spelling of sure, based on dialectal pronunciation.

market

English

(wikipedia market)

Noun

(en noun)
  • City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=Foreword 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.’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site.
  • * Definition used by famous economist of the Austrian school, Ludwig Von Mises, in his book Human Action.
  • The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.
  • A group of potential customers for one's product.
  • * (John Stuart Mill) (1608-1674)
  • 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.
  • A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
  • A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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)
  • What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?

    Synonyms

    * bazaar * fair * mart

    Derived 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-market

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
  • We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter .
  • To sell
  • ''We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!
  • To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
  • Derived terms

    * marketeer

    sho

    English

    Etymology 1

    Phonetic Southern US dialectal spelling of sure.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (US, dialect, South, African American Vernacular English) nonstandard spelling of sure, based on dialectal pronunciation
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (sh?).

    Noun

    (wikipedia sho) (en noun)
  • A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.
  • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun) Of modern scholarly coinage.
  • A letter of the Greek alphabet used to write the Bactrian language: uppercase .
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