I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a commodity market
▪ Coffee is facing the deepest crisis in a global commodity market since the great depression of the 30s.
a fish market
▪ I brought some salmon at the local fish market.
a legal/mathematical/marketing etc concept
▪ Democracy is a very important political concept.
a market town (=a town in Britain where there is a regular outdoor market)
▪ The pretty market town of Ashbourne is only 9 miles away.
a market/free-market economy (=based on companies producing and selling products freely, without restrictions)
▪ Eastern European countries were gradually making the transition to a market economy.
a marketing consultant (=one who gives advice on how to advertise and sell a product)
a marketing strategy
▪ The firm is considering a change in its marketing strategy.
a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz
▪ The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz.
an advertising/marketing/sales campaign
▪ The store ran a television advertising campaign just before Christmas.
an exchange market (=a financial market where different currencies are bought and sold)
▪ The pound rose against the dollar on the world foreign currency exchange markets.
an export market
▪ The US is Scotland’s second largest export market after France.
bear market
black market
▪ There was a thriving black market in foreign currency.
bull market
buyer's market
cattle market
developing economies/markets
▪ the developing economies in Eastern Europe
direct marketing
economic/market trends
▪ This forecast is based on current economic trends.
election/market etc day (=the day when an election, market etc takes place)
▪ Wednesday is market day in Oxford.
farmers' market
flea market
foreign exchange markets/rates/transactions etc
▪ The dollar is expected to fall in the foreign exchange markets.
free market
▪ a free market economy
futures market
glutted...market
▪ the glutted property market
grey market
guerrilla marketing
international trade/market/competition
labour market
▪ married women re-entering the labour market
lead the world/market/pack/field
▪ US companies lead the world in biotechnology.
lucrative business/market/contract etc
▪ He inherited a lucrative business from his father.
main/market/town square
▪ The hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento.
market day
market economy
market forces
market garden
market leader
▪ the UK market leader in sports shoes
market price
market research
▪ They had to conduct market research, then advertise the product.
market share
market town
market value
mass marketing/entertainment etc
▪ a mass marketing campaign
▪ Email has made mass mailings possible at the touch of a button.
money market
on the black market
▪ Many foods were only available on the black market.
open market
▪ The painting would fetch millions of dollars if it was sold on the open market.
put your house on the market (=make it available for people to buy)
▪ They put the house on the market and began looking for an apartment.
seller's market
single market
sold on the open market
▪ The painting would fetch millions of dollars if it was sold on the open market.
stock market
the commercial market (=the market for goods)
▪ A product like this should do well in the commercial market.
the consumer market (=the people who buy consumer goods)
▪ Our advertising is aimed at teenagers because they are our main consumer market.
the currency markets (=the financial markets where currencies are bought and sold)
▪ the dollar’s recent rise on the currency markets
the domestic market (=buying of goods inside a country)
▪ The French domestic market is the largest consumer of champagne.
the finance/marketing/design etc department (=in a company)
▪ He worked in the sales department of a small software company.
the labour market (=the people looking for work and the jobs available)
▪ the percentage of women in the labour market
the market price (=the price of something on a market at a particular time)
▪ We think the stock’s current market price is too high.
the market value (=the amount something can be sold for)
▪ The mortgage is more than the house’s current market value.
the open market (=a market in which anyone can buy or sell)
▪ The painting would fetch several hundred dollars on the open market.
the property market
▪ There were no signs of an upturn in the property market.
viral marketing
▪ You can reach more potential customers by using viral marketing techniques.
withdraw sth from sale/from the market
▪ The drug has been withdrawn from the market for further tests.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Result: a black market in official government receipts with special stamps.
▪ We make a little money on the black market.
▪ The joke was that palm trees were being sold on the black market.
▪ The mere possibility of a black market in weapon-grade material is terrifying.
▪ Here items in short supply are sold at inflated prices - but still generally lower than on the black market.
▪ In doing so it creates a black market, which radically inflates profits for producers and traffickers.
competitive
▪ Employers operate in a competitive market place.
▪ First, if there is no competitive market of alternative goods, there is minimal initiative to produce goods of high quality.
▪ Due to the competitive market in which we operate, this accreditation is very important.
▪ They have become competitive in international markets.
▪ Remember, it is a competitive market out there and the finance companies only survive by lending money.
▪ Low unemployment, a competitive job market and difficulties in recruiting and retaining sailors created the manning problem.
▪ Hodgson believed that the case had been made for an entirely open, competitive labour market in the West Indies.
▪ There, the first step was to abolish the agency, with the expectation that competitive markets would then develop.
domestic
▪ Software and services generated 44% of the total turnover in the domestic market, up from the 36% generated in 1991.
▪ Even these companies are barred from selling to the domestic market.
▪ Through time wine has taken a much larger share of the domestic market.
▪ The peanut program allows only farmers with a federal quota to grow peanuts for the domestic market.
▪ Without a theatrical release in their own domestic market, they stood little chance of recouping the money lavished on them.
▪ However, we now make a distinction between output delivered to the domestic market and exported output.
▪ More and more land was needed to grow crops for export and in some cases for the domestic market.
▪ They will focus on domestic and international markets.
financial
▪ Perhaps, if he went, the financial markets would blip approvingly.
▪ The widely expected decision had little impact on financial markets.
▪ All businesses, factories, financial markets, the airports - everything - are declared closed.
▪ Plus, the financial markets should stay strong, with retirement fund investments continuing to reap decent returns for employees.
▪ In the tertiary sector, particularly financial services, the development of a single financial market may have important employment consequences.
▪ The punditry waxed more predictable by the hour even if the financial markets did not.
▪ The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.
▪ Either will do, but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets.
foreign
▪ It also highlights the additional risks arising in off-exchange transactions and transactions on foreign markets.
▪ Moreover once there are separate national currencies, there are costs of servicing the foreign exchange market.
▪ Like the foreign exchange market, no physical euro-currency market exists but instead it consists of telecommunications between banks.
▪ Most foreign markets are cheaper now than ours.
▪ Dealers on the foreign exchange markets were also hedging their bets and the pound was also on ice.
▪ But now notice that what happens in the foreign market is a mirror image of what happens in the domestic market.
▪ Too many companies enter foreign markets without analysing sufficiently either the customers or the competition in those markets.
free
▪ In a free market, polluting coal-fired power stations and unpopular nuclear ones should be less competitive because of rising environmental costs.
▪ In a free market, competition drives prices down to the fair market price, with different prices on each street corner.
▪ It's a free market, and the money should go to some one else who will control pollution.
▪ In the main, they will be private sector employers operating in a free market and looking to secure an edge over their competitors.
▪ If it's left to the free market these things will not progress fast enough.
▪ He calls it an interference with free markets.
▪ But, as Marx saw long ago, free-market capitalism is quintessentially populist and inherently subversive of traditions and rituals.
global
▪ Four questions for corporate finance One man's efficient, interconnected global market is another man's arbitrary and nationally divisive casino.
▪ The ideology of the global market is built on the assumption that every country will earn most of its income from exports.
▪ In a global free market livelihoods are permanently up for tender.
▪ The second is the feeling of insecurity in the workplace as companies try to compete in the global market.
▪ The livestock being killed are a ritual sacrifice to the gods of global markets.
▪ In recent years, the group has claimed on average about 30 % of the global market for large commercial aircraft orders.
▪ This ruling, in effect, accepted the reality of a global market place.
internal
▪ Barts holds contracts from more health authorities than any other: success in the internal market if ever I heard of it.
▪ Evaluation of the first year's operation of the internal market is not straight forward.
▪ Where job ladders are created, further managerial work is involved in managing the operation of the internal labour market.
▪ Because the internal market for consumer goods was too small; 2.
▪ This, and many similar references, suggests that this remains the popular conception of an internal market.
▪ One way is to be more specific about the expected effects of internal markets.
▪ On the contrary, it responded to opportunities both of export abroad and of an increasingly integrated internal market.
▪ The internal market is very limited.
international
▪ Many are vocal opponents of liberalised international markets in general.
▪ But now, Greenspan alone possesses the degree of influence that can send international markets lurching downward.
▪ Publishers calculated their advances for best-selling authors like Frederick Forsyth on the basis of sales hyped in international markets.
▪ Tariffs in the national long-distance market also rose, though not as steeply as in the international market.
▪ Films were cast for an international market in the Hollywood of the 1920s; and international press syndication had a long history.
▪ Five years later, the international oil market is serene, even sleepy.
▪ From the start, Copyrights placed the emphasis on the international market and, instead of using sub-agents, opened its own offices.
large
▪ Farmers near Girvan and Dunbar use these advantages to provide early potatoes for the large markets of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
▪ It would provide a large affluent open market to which exporting was easy.
▪ That last requirement could best be met by establishing a large enough market to warrant actual manufacture in the Far East.
▪ By 1918, there were 174 of these large markets in cities of over 30, 000 in population.
▪ The larger market is undoubtedly for cheap Far Eastern clone machines.
▪ The availability of a larger market leads to economies of scale, again leading to greater efficiency in local industry.
▪ As we have indicated in the previous chapter, there looks like being a very large potential market for consumer multimedia.
▪ Marta gets her stocks from a large informal market in Villa El Salvador shanty-town.
local
▪ There was certainly a distinct local advertising market available to support it.
▪ The guilds worked both for the local market and for distant trade.
▪ Commonly geared to the demands of a constricted local market, not all these crafts could provide continuous employment.
▪ Goods can be varied slightly and repackaged for local markets throughout the world.
▪ We enjoyed good wines at 75p a litre and gorging on fresh sardines and salads bought in the local market.
▪ Watch for specials at your local market and shop accordingly.
▪ Some poor people live in houses that have become valuable through changes in the local property market.
▪ Finance ministry officials yesterday said at least six brokerages are under investigation for trading violations in the local Brady bond market.
mass
▪ In 1996 desktop computer software will allow two-way conversations, bringing the technology to the mass market.&038;.
▪ Dolby Digital, the next generation in surround-sound, is coming to the mass market.
▪ This is not to say that mass markets have disintegrated or that economies of scale are irrelevant to competitive performance.
▪ Telecommuting is now reaching the mass market, where it is not as picturesque but has more practical value.
▪ It now seems certain that cheap, convenient videoconferencing is at last going to reach a mass market of computer users.
▪ Honda admits the model introduction is more a subsidized experiment than mass market pitch.
▪ He dreams of a mass consumer market, with one set per person rather than today's one per home.
▪ The market is now the mass market.
new
▪ Both will seek to develop new markets and improve efficiency by adjusting timetables, introducing better locomotive diagramming and crew rosters.
▪ The London managers, like the geeks, were too new to the market to question the strategy.
▪ This is often the case when the search is being undertaken across borders or in a new market segment.
▪ The diet companies are targeting new markets outside their traditional client base of fairly affluent, young to middle-aged white women.
▪ They expect other nations to set technical standards and to innovate new markets.
▪ Shortly after each new market is discovered, actors demand more money.
▪ This provides still stronger motivation to seek new markets.
open
▪ The money supply can be reduced directly by using open market operations.
▪ The Bank could, and did, make Bank Rate effective by open market operations.
▪ In addition, the resulting change in reserves can be predicted precisely and open market operations are readily reversible.
▪ She walked down to the open market itself.
▪ The other half is a boat made from bookshelves found in open markets in Havana.
▪ The Monday open market at Hemlington was established by the council at the suggestion of residents.
▪ The immediate counterattack is simple: Has the building been offered for sale on the open market?
single
▪ The concept assumes that within any single market there are invariably other sub-markets. 26.
▪ That confirms that the United Kingdom is at the forefront in implementing single market measures.
▪ The process of completing the single market is not over.
▪ The single market programme requires each member state to turn 279 rules and regulations into national law.
stock
▪ The stock market debutant has lost 70 % of its value since its flotation last month.
▪ My father found himself without an income about the time the stock market crashed.
▪ For people who are nervous about the stock market an advisory service may be more suitable.
▪ The results were released after the stock market closed.
▪ Falling stock markets and a lack of merger activity have squeezed margins and profits in investment banks.
▪ One of those things was that the stock market might fall, oh, say, 20 percent this year.
■ NOUN
bond
▪ It was loth to do this because the bonds were a potential goldmine when the junk-bond market recovered.
▪ That is the kind of world that the bond market, dominated by lenders, loves.
▪ Some are focussing on areas such as swaps and derivatives, which can give them an edge in the primary bond market.
▪ Anything about the bond market promises to be long and dull.
▪ The bond market is calm; and yet Rubin has managed to worry his opponents.
▪ On the table in the front of the room was a telephone, which rang whenever the bond market went berserk.
▪ The bond market had caught fire, and experienced salesmen such as himself were all at once much in demand.
economy
▪ Eulogists of the market economy usually assume that it works on perfect information.
▪ But as these countries gradually, if fitfully, merge into the global market economy, fewer and fewer such barriers exist.
▪ His country may be taking the first steps to a market economy, but on the streets there are remarkably few cars.
▪ They are democracies, have market economies and are making good-faith efforts to deal with ethnic minorities.
▪ The market economy provided other employment opportunities for poorer villagers.
▪ In distinguishing the market economy from the command economy, five fundamental questions will be posed: 1.
▪ Ownership is obviously central to the disposal of state property - privatization - in the move to a market economy.
▪ Critics of the market economy base their position on the following points.
exchange
▪ Delivery takes place two business days after the last trading day, the standard settlement period in the foreign exchange market.
▪ Moreover once there are separate national currencies, there are costs of servicing the foreign exchange market.
▪ Like the foreign exchange market, no physical euro-currency market exists but instead it consists of telecommunications between banks.
▪ Each of these factors places powerful pressures on the foreign exchange market.
▪ Dealers on the foreign exchange markets were also hedging their bets and the pound was also on ice.
▪ On the one hand, real-world foreign exchange markets conform closely to the kinds of markets we have studied in this chapter.
▪ This will increase the demand for sterling on the foreign exchange markets and hence cause an appreciation of the exchange rate.
▪ To do so they go to the foreign exchange market as demanders of yen.
export
▪ Unresponsive export markets led many houses to turn their attention inwards and focus on long-neglected domestic sales.
▪ The healthy export market for four-wheel-drive vehicles contrasts sharply with the rest of the slump-hit industry.
▪ We are, however, expecting healthy growth in home and export markets.
▪ It supplies stores like Harrods and Selfridges as well as having a big export market.
forces
▪ The level of rent to qualify for full Housing Benefit subsidy will be determined according to locally operating market forces.
▪ Within those parameters, the more that you can energize market forces like competition, the better you are.
▪ As for its chief executive's remuneration, that should be a matter for market forces.
▪ The plain fact was that a combination of market forces and gross mismanagement had thrown Salomon Brothers into deep trouble.
▪ But it thinks that to rely solely on market forces is a messy way of reining in a big borrower.
▪ To back this up they claim that a reliance on market forces has widened pay inequalities and also significantly increased unemployment.
▪ When market forces are allowed to operate, rates of exchange are determined by the demand and supply of currencies.
▪ The inevitable pressure of market forces rendered Luff's experiment obsolete, long before the track and overhead were worn out.
home
▪ The perhaps inevitable consequences were accumulating losses and a withdrawal back to the protected home market.
▪ The company also will demonstrate a new keyboard aimed at the home market that incorporates a built-in paper scanner.
▪ In the home market, it led the field by a long way, with 4,337,487 units sold.
▪ Acer is one of the few companies shipping a monitor of this size aimed at the home market.
▪ Wooden hoops used on casks for the home market were usually of hazel and were produced by local firms from local timber.
▪ In a nutshell, wireless operators are expected to be the low-cost providers in the video to the home market.
▪ That takes Compass into hospitals and also greatly increases its presence in the fast-growing retirement home market.
▪ But, while the wait for the modern stereo disc continues, stereo tapes are released for the home market.
housing
▪ Solicitors' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse.
▪ Unemployment, the collapse of the housing market and changes in population trends have led to an erosion of famous traits.
▪ Both speakers believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse.
▪ Mr Smith must learn that hitting the pay packet hits the housing market, and that hits the institutions.
▪ Staff at the Chelsea Building Society, based in Cheltenham are confident that figure will be sufficient to boost the housing market.
▪ They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years.
▪ But the housing market will pull out of the recession in the second half of 1993, say the economic pundits.
job
▪ Women are confined to those sectors of the job market which pay the least, no matter whether or not they are skilled.
▪ After all, he hadn't taken degrees in astronomy expecting a hot job market after graduation.
▪ How do I re-enter the job market after being a full-time mom?
▪ Tomorrow's job market is more likely to need flexible workers.
▪ However, meeting these kinds of challenges develops your creativity and positions you well for the job market of the future.
▪ Will my hon. Friend look at the matter in light of the present strained position in the jobs market?
▪ New entrants to the job market are considerably better educated than workers who are retiring.
labour
▪ Where job ladders are created, further managerial work is involved in managing the operation of the internal labour market.
▪ Many women workers exhibit labour market characteristics traditionally associated with vulnerability to unemployment.
▪ If the ith labour market initially experiences excess demand money wages will rise at a rate.
▪ The simplest variant of the theory is to split the labour market into two sectors.
▪ The relation is therefore a mechanism which illustrates how the labour market responds out of equilibrium.
▪ The equilibrium levels of income and employment were believed to be determined largely in the labour market.
▪ Undoubtedly, the labour market is more flexible.
▪ Precisely what effects this will have on the dynamics of the labour market is extremely complex but none the less real.
leader
▪ The Palm Pilot is currently the market leader with 75-80 % of the market share.
▪ That proved a bonanza in 1995, when blue chips were market leaders.
▪ They include seven market leaders and had a turnover of almost £19 million last year, though they suffered a loss.
▪ First Alert, the market leader, said the detectors were fine.
▪ As a consequence peat has been the market leader for the past forty years.
▪ Cost barriers to entry are high and the time necessary to catch up with market leaders is lengthy.
▪ This at least is the figure assumed by the market leaders, Thomson Holidays, and the other majors do not differ greatly.
money
▪ The money market interest rate is 10 percent.
▪ Low interest rates boost bonds by making it cheaper to borrow funds in the money market and invest it in bonds.
▪ Daily reports of money market events, prices and yields are carried in the Financial Times.
▪ The Bank is a major player in the sterling money market, buying and selling Treasury bills on a daily basis.
▪ A money market works in a similar kind of way.
▪ This makes bonds more difficult to price than money market instruments.
▪ Leaders and money markets had every reason to be delighted with the good news.
place
▪ It is timely that we have concentrated on improving our performance because our market place is becoming more competitive.
▪ They are mainly rickshaw pullers, cart pullers and others who carry loads in the market place.
▪ We accept that a high risk should have a high reward even though this is not always the case in the market place.
▪ Then Great-Grandad would drive the lot down to Barnard Castle to get the best price he could in the market place.
▪ Money is also a claim in that it gives the holder command over goods and services in the market place.
▪ Such monetarist policies meant that employment and interest rates were left to find their own levels in the market place.
▪ Local radio Here is your golden media opportunity for local radio is an expanding market place for public relations.
▪ The market place can be confusing but Trader Horn picks his way through the mire Going for the grand tour.
price
▪ At £750,000 we paid the market price for him, but he looks a snip now.
▪ In some cases costs and benefits must be estimated indirectly or inferred because pertinent market prices do not exist.
▪ Vicenzo had offered the market price for Manningham Electronics.
▪ One of the key actions taken was to raise market prices immediately to increase revenues and thereby achieve the 1984 plan.
▪ Invite the chosen agent to inspect the house and give an indication of the market price.
▪ Current federal farm programs often guarantee growers a minimum price even if the market price drops lower.
▪ This can then be compared with the market price of the share to determine whether it is underpriced or overpriced.
▪ You calculate the dividend yield by dividing the annual dividend by the market price of a stock.
property
▪ There is also speculation of a mini-revival in the battered property market.
▪ Such speculative gains were seen as more often lying in the property market than in industrial capitalization.
▪ It announced a loss of £2.8m, on a turnover of £13.5m, thanks mainly to write-downs in the depressed property market.
▪ Payne dealt in the risky syndicated property market.
▪ The property market has softened, but not collapsed.
▪ Throughout the property market, deals that had been nearly completed were called off.
▪ But the cities are littered with half-finished construction projects or empty office blocks, witness to the decline of the property market.
▪ East Anglia has been particularly affected by the fall in the property market.
research
▪ Quota sampling is widely used in market research as it is cost-effective.
▪ The three concerns will focus on high-growth information markets, financial information services and consumer-product market research.
▪ They now listen to the customer and report back, and we are improving our market research and developing guest databases.
▪ Shaw hires mostly female salespeople because market research suggests that carpet shoppers are primarily women who prefer to buy from other women.
▪ I've done some intensive market research.
▪ If the group review process goes well, the next step may include some experimentation, market research, or prototype development.
▪ What is the extent of market research, forecasting, advertising, product development, and exporting?
▪ So far we have been concerned mainly with the market research aspects of marketing research.
share
▪ The Palm Pilot is currently the market leader with 75-80 % of the market share.
▪ If that trend continues, it could be a boon to on-line users and a bloodbath for providers fighting for market share.
▪ They pursue reliability just because they know it leads to lower costs and increased market share.
▪ Beyond those, they cite the high costs of customer disaffection, which drives down both profit margins and market share.
▪ The firm now has a market share of 27%, second only to Coopers &038; Lybrand which has 30%.
▪ In the 128 countries where Roundup is sold, total market share is more than 90 %.
▪ That consulting group came to realize earlier than others how important market share was to corporate profitability.
▪ The Falkirk and Milford Haven branches also made steady progress, increasing their market share in the onshore petrochemical industry.
town
▪ Clark was named by police as they launched a manhunt following the bloodbath in the market town of Melksham, Wilts.
▪ Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns.
▪ Roots may just be retained in small market towns like Grantham, Selby and Chipping Norton, in spite of the tourists.
▪ Louth in Lincolnshire, 16 miles south of Grimsby, is a pleasant little country market town.
▪ Last month more than 400 Hema were massacred in the market town of Blukwa.
▪ Sited ten miles west of Oxford is the small market town of Witney.
▪ For a small firm of solicitors in a market town, conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income.
▪ It is surrounded by interesting market towns such as Hexham and Prudhoe which are a pleasure to browse through.
value
▪ If what I will call the hypothetical cost test is adopted it will come very close to a market value test.
▪ In 1995, the Amex list of 52 new companies had a mean market value of about $ 65 million.
▪ The indemnity only covers market value claims as at the date of exchange.
▪ For bonds and preferred stocks, market values are determined mainly by the credit rating of the company and prevailing interest rates.
▪ It can be drawn up on the basis of historic-cost book values, current-cost book values or market values.
▪ Since the beginning of this week Jaguar's shares have risen by 161p - increasing its stock market value by nearly £300m.
▪ Sale of the land to developers, on the other hand, would be at market value.
▪ This can be very high, for a large company a change in market value of millions of pounds is not unusual.
world
▪ Even Gorbachev proclaimed the Soviet Unions' interest in participating in the management of the world market economy.
▪ Uranium and thorium entered lay vocabularies even as world markets for them were spawned.
▪ One is the network of the world market and the other is the multinational corporations that operate plants worldwide.
▪ A relatively small withdrawal of oil from the world market in October 1973 was sufficient to precipitate an acute crisis.
▪ Much of our raw materials and our food must be purchased in world markets and imported.
▪ The Soviet Union today is more dependent on the world market, and world resources, not less.
▪ But far more significant is the up-turn in the world market.
▪ There are just two firms which will bid, though the minerals extracted will subsequently be sold on a competitive world market.
■ VERB
enter
▪ Thus, firms entering overseas markets must bear this in mind when introducing new products or services.
▪ Photographs are a good way to enter the fine-art market.
▪ Some companies have entered the market with encouraging propositions, others not.
▪ Axcelis entered the market July 11, spun off from Eaton Corp., a Cleveland manufacturing company.
▪ We shall be entering the single market in the coming year.
▪ If a decision is made to enter the labour market, the next decision concerns how many hours to work.
▪ Although new firms continue to enter the market, most commentators expect the total number of GEMMs to decline further.
sell
▪ Emap Diffusion to grow our copy sales; and Emap Media, selling advertising across markets and across media.
▪ The training of agents is important to indirect selling in overseas markets, particularly if the products are technically complex.
▪ Even these companies are barred from selling to the domestic market.
▪ It is sold in markets or the well-stocked supermarkets such as the Mercadona, near the centre of town.
▪ The joke was that palm trees were being sold on the black market.
▪ Whitbread says the freeholds could be sold when the property market picks up.
▪ In the 128 countries where Roundup is sold, total market share is more than 90 %.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
captive market
▪ In the past, manufacturers had a captive market.
▪ Philip Leapor did not have a captive market.
corner the market
▪ The company has cornered 98% of the fried chicken market.
▪ But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship, they were to be quickly disillusioned.
▪ He cornered the market in heroes, as it were.
▪ He may deliberately set out to corner the market, but do so by buying at legitimate market prices.
▪ Most are the product of one extended family-the Jennings-that has cornered the market on Saturday Night Specials.
▪ The girls who had been in since the start of the war had cornered the market in stripes.
▪ Think you've bloody cornered the market in love, don't you?
flood the market
▪ Special sports drinks are now flooding the market.
▪ Already coffee ice creams are flooding the market.
▪ As it is, Mr Botero has been whining that too many of his real works are flooding the market.
▪ Farmers complain about no-one buying their wine and cheap imports flooding the markets.
▪ For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities, and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market.
▪ Is the restaurant flooding the market with lots of cost-saving coupons?
▪ Later, scores of such books would flood the market.
▪ Millions of extra shares will flood the market, but this shouldn't deter investors.
gap in the market
▪ At the time Cook was concentrating on smaller, more select parties which left a gap in the market for larger tours.
▪ Clearly, a gap in the market.
▪ Laura had always been able to identify gaps in the market and fill them.
▪ Part of the skill of successful development is in identifying and satisfying gaps in the market which offer higher than usual returns.
▪ There was a gap in the market which wouldn't last for ever.
mature market/industry
▪ And there are other more mature markets in which our business can be expanded further.
▪ Here on the Island we have a mature market.
▪ It is, rather, a mature market that is in decline.
▪ Price competition Price competition occurs in mature markets, much of it induced by clients.
▪ The propane industry was a mature industry and Mega was primarily a single business company.
on the open market
▪ Berryhill is back on the open market.
▪ HaL is unlikely to sell its chips on the open market.
▪ I hadn't been on the open market for so long.
▪ If the Bank wishes to reduce the money supply it will sell securities through its broker on the open market.
▪ It is likely to be some years before such a product is on the open market.
▪ It will sell the rest on the open market.
▪ Priced on the open market, they would sell for tens and tens of billions of dollars.
▪ They sell bonds on the open market.
play the market
▪ And this is why many growers are choosing to let their grain merchants play the markets for them.
▪ For example: Do Social Security recipients want government playing the market?
▪ The first swap was in December 1983 but the council had not begun to play the market in earnest until late 1987.
▪ The reverse, Adibi said, is true for those whose income is too low to play the market.
price yourself out of the market
saturate the market
▪ Indeed, Clark inked her deal as a wave of Simpson-related titles began saturating the market, with varying success.
the Common Market
the bottom drops/falls out of the market
the single market
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Capitalism is based on a belief in the market.
▪ I bet you could have got that cheaper at the market.
▪ I went down to the flower market to get these - aren't they gorgeous?
▪ Japanese cars account for about 30% of the U.S. car market.
▪ The market for Internet-based products has grown dramatically in recent years.
▪ The magazine is aimed at the youth market.
▪ Without research we can't be sure of the size of our market or even who our market is.
▪ You occasionally see eel in the fish market, but it's quite rare these days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both countries seem destined to make their mark on the red wine market with cabernet sauvignon and merlot.
▪ Every market is full of people who are looking for products, even when no jobs are being advertised.
▪ If rates go up another percentage point, however, they could seriously dampen the rebounding market.
▪ Many US-owned maquilas claim to be in the market for locally produced materials and components, backward linkages.
▪ September looked set to be a dead month for mortgages, prompting fears of a further collapse in the market.
▪ Sorrel was on duty at her stall on the corner of the flea market, so that was my first port of call.
▪ The technology-heavy Nasdaq market and the Russell 2000 index of smaller company stocks were flirting record highs after erasing their early losses.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
brand
▪ In addition to the Rentokil name these products are marketed under the brand names Tutor and Albi.
▪ Distributors' sale staff didn't really believe Summit beer would sell and didn't work hard to market the brand.
company
▪ The company also markets Sound System, a £200 upgrade kit that allows users to speak to their computer.
▪ Another of his companies would test and market mifepristone for potential uses other than early abortion.
▪ Petersburg Times, was loaned by companies seeking to market the technology to law enforcement agencies.
name
▪ These are marketed under various names, including Rehidrat, Dioralyte and Gluco-lyte, and are available on prescription.
▪ The consolidated operating regions will market under the Verio name in all of their respective markets beginning today.
▪ However, any contemporary rug may be marketed under the name of the traditional group most closely associated with its design.
product
▪ A more controversial point is the court taking into account the purposes for which the product has been marketed.
▪ Tests must always be carried out in the pack in which the product is to be marketed.
▪ Many improvements were made to the Bank Quay works, and Crosfields' products were marketed throughout the world.
service
▪ It is good for business, giving private firms new opportunities to market their services.
▪ There also are plans to market the news service on line.
▪ Dean Cowley, formerly in charge of stationery, will now take on marketing services, including advertising and sales promotion.
▪ What you have to begin doing before that happens is to market your services as self-employed people do.
▪ Sales of geophysical data were also maintained and a business venture to market geophysical services to the exploration industry was established.
▪ The pace will pick up because of the marketing of food services and Traxx restaurant.
▪ The Baby Bells face another challenge: whether they can successfully market the service.
system
▪ The company also markets Sound System, a £200 upgrade kit that allows users to speak to their computer.
▪ VidaMed, based in Menlo Park, California, is marketing the Tuna system in more than 20 countries.
▪ The development of a people-to-people marketing system would quickly become our third business venture.
■ VERB
develop
▪ What is different is the context in which it is being developed, controlled and marketed.
▪ Boston Scientific develops and markets medical devices.
▪ Figure 5.3 is a decision tree for a hypothetical development project to develop and market a new product.
▪ DowElanco will have exclusive rights to develop and market any resulting compounds that can be used in agriculture.
▪ As a result, Quorum will continue to develop and market its cross-platform compatibility products without threat of further legal action.
▪ Suzuki liked the idea at once and set up a new company, Sofmap F Design, to develop and market it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
captive market
▪ In the past, manufacturers had a captive market.
▪ Philip Leapor did not have a captive market.
gap in the market
▪ At the time Cook was concentrating on smaller, more select parties which left a gap in the market for larger tours.
▪ Clearly, a gap in the market.
▪ Laura had always been able to identify gaps in the market and fill them.
▪ Part of the skill of successful development is in identifying and satisfying gaps in the market which offer higher than usual returns.
▪ There was a gap in the market which wouldn't last for ever.
mature market/industry
▪ And there are other more mature markets in which our business can be expanded further.
▪ Here on the Island we have a mature market.
▪ It is, rather, a mature market that is in decline.
▪ Price competition Price competition occurs in mature markets, much of it induced by clients.
▪ The propane industry was a mature industry and Mega was primarily a single business company.
on the open market
▪ Berryhill is back on the open market.
▪ HaL is unlikely to sell its chips on the open market.
▪ I hadn't been on the open market for so long.
▪ If the Bank wishes to reduce the money supply it will sell securities through its broker on the open market.
▪ It is likely to be some years before such a product is on the open market.
▪ It will sell the rest on the open market.
▪ Priced on the open market, they would sell for tens and tens of billions of dollars.
▪ They sell bonds on the open market.
the Common Market
the bottom drops/falls out of the market
the single market
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In order to market a product well, you need to be aware of public demand.
▪ Most turkeys are marketed at a young age.
▪ The company has exclusive European rights to market the new software.
▪ The toy is marketed for children aged 2 to 6.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But about 20 percent to 30 percent of all fresh-cut produce goes bad while being shipped and marketed, Watada said.