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market day

Word definitions for market day in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (&lit market day English) 2 The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Colgate toothpaste tubes arrives on market day . ▪ It's a Jul fruit market day . ▪ It only takes two or three volunteers on a busy market day or Saturday afternoon to gather several hundred signatures. ▪ It was market day and ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fixed day for holding a public market

Usage examples of market day.

Fortunately, it's market day in Petticoat Lane, so there'll be plenty of new suits to pick and choose from.

It was not market day, however, when the canal was so full you couldn&rsquo.

As the market day wound to a close, Jinna had done well for herself.

If there happen to be such plenty in the market on any market day that they cannot sell at their own price, then will they set it up in some friend's house, against another on the third day, and not bring it forth till they like of the sale.

On learning each week, on market day that the price of a loaf of bread advances three, four, or seven sous, they break out into shrieks of rage: at this rate for bread, with the small salaries of the men, and when work fails,[16] how can a family be fed?

Worn with his checked cloth cap it was the sort of outfit that I would expect an English gentleman farmer to wear on market day.