Merchant vs. Market — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Merchant and Market
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Merchant
A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Historically, a merchant is anyone who is involved in business or trade.
Market
A public gathering held for buying and selling goods or services
A weekly flower market.
Merchant
A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying goods to a particular trade
A builders' merchant
A tea merchant
Market
An open space or a building where goods or services are offered for sale by multiple sellers
Bought the chair at the downtown antiques market.
Merchant
A person who has a liking for a particular activity
His driver was no speed merchant
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Market
A store or shop that sells agricultural produce
Bought vegetables from the corner market.
Merchant
(in historical contexts) relating to merchants or commerce
The growth of the merchant classes
Market
A system of exchange in which prices are determined by the interaction of multiple, competing buyers and sellers
An electronic market for trading pollution credits.
Merchant
One whose occupation is the wholesale purchase and retail sale of goods for profit.
Market
A similar system in which information or ideas are evaluated by multiple competing interests.
Merchant
One who runs a retail business; a shopkeeper.
Market
The buyers and sellers for a particular good or service or within a particular region
Recent college graduates entering the US labor market.
Merchant
Of or relating to merchants, merchandise, or commercial trade
A merchant guild.
Market
The business transacted between such sellers and buyers
A slump in the housing market.
Merchant
Of or relating to the merchant marine
Merchant ships.
Market
The price of a particular good or service as determined by supply and demand
The gold market climbed for the fifth straight day.
Merchant
A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
Market
The demand for a particular commodity
A big market for denim.
A growth market.
Merchant
The owner or operator of a retail business.
Market
A standing commitment to buy and sell a given security at stated prices
A brokerage that made a market in the company's stock.
Merchant
A trading vessel; a merchantman.
Market
A subdivision of a population considered as consumers
Targeting the teen market.
A new product for the West Coast market.
Merchant
Someone who is noted for a stated type of activity or behaviour.
He's some kind of speed merchant — he drives way too fast.
Goal merchant Smith scored twice again in the match against Mudchester Rovers.
Market
The market price
Executed the sale at market.
Merchant
(obsolete) A supercargo.
Market
To offer for sale
Merchants marketing their wares in the souk.
Merchant
As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.
A merchanting service
Market
To try to make (a product or service) appealing to particular groups of consumers; promote by marketing.
Merchant
One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad.
Market
To deal in a market; engage in buying or selling.
Merchant
A trading vessel; a merchantman.
Market
To buy household supplies
We marketed for a special Sunday dinner.
Merchant
One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
Market
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
Merchant
Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
Market
City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
Merchant
To be a merchant; to trade.
Market
A grocery store
Merchant
A businessperson engaged in retail trade
Market
A group of potential customers for one's product.
We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.
Market
A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.
Market
A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
Market
The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
Market
(obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
Market
(transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
Market
(transitive) To sell.
We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
Market
(intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Market
(intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
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.
He is wit's peddler; and retails his waresAt wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.
Three women and a goose make a market.
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.
There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.
Market
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.
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.
Market
Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
Market
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
What is a manIf his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed?
Market
The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
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.
Market
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Market
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.
Industrious merchants meet, and market thereThe world's collected wealth.
Market
The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold;
Without competition there would be no market
They were driven from the marketplace
Market
The securities markets in the aggregate;
The market always frustrates the small investor
Market
The customers for a particular product or service;
Before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it
Market
A marketplace where groceries are sold;
The grocery store included a meat market
Market
Engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of;
The company is marketing its new line of beauty products
Market
Buy household supplies;
We go marketing every Saturday
Market
Deal in a market
Market
Make commercial;
Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life
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