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Marketplace vs Nonmarketplace - What's the difference?

marketplace | nonmarketplace |

As a noun marketplace

is an open area in a town housing a public market.

As an adjective nonmarketplace is

not of or pertaining to the economic marketplace.

marketplace

English

Alternative forms

* market place

Noun

(wikipedia marketplace) (en noun)
  • An open area in a town housing a public market.
  • The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.
  • (by extension) The world of commerce and trade.

    • Related terms

    * market square

    nonmarketplace

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not of or pertaining to the economic marketplace.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 20, author=Rob Walker, title=Dreaming in Green, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But that, in fact, is the point: the nonmarketplace context of hypothetical products frees the designer to leapfrog practical-minded meetings about market share and profit margins and the like and to land at the bigger questions: is this something companies should do ? or must do? }}