Marketplace vs. Market — What's the Difference?

A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods. In different parts of the world, a market place may be described as a souk (from the Arabic), bazaar (from the Persian), a fixed mercado (Spanish), or itinerant tianguis (Mexico), or palengke (Philippines).

A public gathering held for buying and selling goods or services

An open area or square in a town where a public market or sale is set up.

An open space or a building where goods or services are offered for sale by multiple sellers

The world of business and commerce.

A store or shop that sells agricultural produce

A situation or place in which values, opinions, and ideas are put forward for debate or recognition

A system of exchange in which prices are determined by the interaction of multiple, competing buyers and sellers

An open area in a town housing a public market.

A similar system in which information or ideas are evaluated by multiple competing interests.

The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.

The buyers and sellers for a particular good or service or within a particular region

(by extension) The world of commerce and trade.

The business transacted between such sellers and buyers

(figurative) A place or sphere for the exchange of anything, such as ideas or fashions.

The price of a particular good or service as determined by supply and demand

An area in a town where a public market is set up; a market place; a market{2}.

The demand for a particular commodity

The commercial activity whereby good and services are exchanged; as, without competition there would be no market.

A standing commitment to buy and sell a given security at stated prices

The mechanism by which one finds a person to whom to sell or from whom to buy goods; the opportunity to buy and sell; a market{3}; as, to put one's goods on the market.

A subdivision of a population considered as consumers

The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold;

The market price

An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

To offer for sale

To try to make (a product or service) appealing to particular groups of consumers; promote by marketing.

To deal in a market; engage in buying or selling.

To buy household supplies

A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.

City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.

A grocery store

A group of potential customers for one's product.

A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.

A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.

The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.

(obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.

(transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

(transitive) To sell.

(intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

(intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.

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.

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.

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.

Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.

The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.

The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.

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.

To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

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.

The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold;

The securities markets in the aggregate;

The customers for a particular product or service;

A marketplace where groceries are sold;

Engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of;

Buy household supplies;

Deal in a market

Make commercial;