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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marketplace
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
▪ Never before have societies left it almost completely to the commercial marketplace to determine their values and their role models.
competitive
▪ Maybe these are the qualities that helped to build the company in the competitive marketplace.
▪ Bubbies first became a major brand in the competitive California marketplace and are now eagerly asked for throughout the entire country.
▪ But consumers have a highly competitive marketplace on their side.
▪ The choice is not quite as stark as it would be in a competitive marketplace: compete or die.
electronic
▪ There never has been room in the consumer electronic marketplace for two directly competing, but incompatible, systems.
▪ In short, an electronic marketplace is an interactive information service that supports the entire innovation process.
▪ To be sure, the electronic marketplace is still in the very early stages of development on the World Wide Web.
▪ In this nascent electronic marketplace only an infinitesimal fraction of business transactions are currently handled on the I-way.
▪ Many companies are pooling their resources and talents through alliances and mergers with other companies to make the electronic marketplace a reality.
▪ Many businesses are navigating the electronic marketplace without proper consumer and market research.
▪ In other words, the electronic marketplace should be the first place customers go to find the products and services they need.
▪ The emerging electronic marketplace is expected to support all business services that normally depend on paper-based transactions.
global
▪ The central fault line in modern post-industrial society is that between the winners and the losers in the global marketplace.
▪ Ideas are everything in a fragmented global marketplace, and great ideas demand a diverse work force.
▪ We live in a global marketplace, which puts enormous competitive pressure on our economic institutions.
▪ Diversity is seen less as a problem than as a simple business reality in the global marketplace.
▪ Manage diversity, trainers preached, or risk getting clobbered in the global marketplace of the 21st century.
▪ In short, the commercialization of the Internet promises to produce profound transformation of business and economic forces in the global marketplace.
international
▪ The Producers Development Initiative offers help and advice in developing, producing and distributing their work in the international marketplace.
▪ Producing quality products is important if the company is to continue to compete in the international marketplace.
▪ It is the premier international marketplace for new product introductions, support programs and high-performance technologies.
▪ It is quite impossible to maintain the statusquo, or a steady-state position in the international marketplace.
▪ These admissions are borne out by the way their firms have so avidly bought technology in international marketplaces.
■ VERB
bring
▪ It is essential to bring the marketplace further into the academy.
▪ He was known for facilitating the process whereby tumor markers, or lab tests for tumors, were brought into the marketplace.
▪ El Pueblo brings to the marketplace an innovative gift store with a touch of Latin class.
compete
▪ We have to compete in the marketplace.
▪ Producing quality products is important if the company is to continue to compete in the international marketplace.
▪ Survival of the fittest Firms unable to compete in the new marketplace will fail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ideas are everything in a fragmented global marketplace, and great ideas demand a diverse work force.
▪ In this nascent electronic marketplace only an infinitesimal fraction of business transactions are currently handled on the I-way.
▪ It believes the award will give its distributors and installers competitive advantage in a marketplace where quality is very important.
▪ Or will older people themselves influence the marketplace through their purses, by only selecting those retailers and products which are user-friendly?
▪ The changing marketplace may have one other useful impact on the culture.
▪ The feminist movement really has to be about liberating the home as well as the marketplace as a choice.
▪ The legal market is being driven by economic rationalisation, demographic saturation, marketplace maturation, consumer-driven deregulation and globalisation.
▪ There is a discipline behind exchange as well, and you understand it: it is the discipline of the marketplace.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
marketplace

marketplace \marketplace\ n.

  1. an area in a town where a public market is set up; a market place; a market[2].

    Syn: mart.

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

    Syn: market.

  3. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
marketplace

late 14c., "place where a market is held," from market (n.) + place (n.). Figurative use is from 1942.

Wiktionary
marketplace

alt. 1 An open area in a town housing a public market. 2 The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. 3 (context by extension English) The world of commerce and trade. n. 1 An open area in a town housing a public market. 2 The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. 3 (context by extension English) The world of commerce and trade.

WordNet
marketplace
  1. n. 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" [syn: market]

  2. an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up [syn: mart]

Wikipedia
Marketplace (radio program)

Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them. Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, the show is produced and distributed by American Public Media, in association with the University of Southern California. Marketplace is produced in Los Angeles with bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., Portland, Baltimore, London, and Shanghai. It won a Peabody Award in 2000.

Marketplace (TV series)

Marketplace is an award-winning Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. The series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which airs investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business practices and other news issues of interest to product and service consumers. The program is in its 43rd season, which began in October 2015.

Marketplace (disambiguation)

A marketplace is the space in which a market operates.

Marketplace may also refer to:

Marketplace (Irish TV series)

Marketplace is an RTÉ Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis of political, business and financial matters.

It was first broadcast on 3 October 1987 and was presented at various times by Patrick Kinsella, Gavin Duffy, Gary Agnew, Miriam O'Callaghan, Ingrid Miley and George Lee. Marketplace was broadcast for the last time on 3 April 1996.

Usage examples of "marketplace".

As she got her bearings, they passed through an open metal gate at the end of the avenue of lights and into a wide open space like an empty marketplace or an arena for some game or sport.

As he spoke, two bolts of force, white teardrops with wavering trails of light, raced across the marketplace like tiny falling stars to strike Stormcloak.

They were too confident, too eager to be interested in the sort of rag-trade, used goods, and craftwork ostensibly being sold in this marketplace.

Aware that crime and disease would both be on the increase, Pompey devoted some of his splendid organizational talents to diminishing crime and disease by hiring ex-gladiators to police the alleys and byways of the city, by making the College of Lictors keep an eye on the shysters and tricksters who frequented the Forum Romanum and other major marketplaces, by enlarging the swimming holes of the Trigarium, and plastering vacant walls with warning notices about good drinking water, urinating and defaecating anywhere but in the public latrines, clean hands and bad food.

In fact, the commercial character of Christmas helped to make the holiday national: in a country characterized by geographical regionalism and religious denominationalism, the marketplace was one place where diverse people could come together.

In the center of the marketplace was a platform where an ensemble of musicians played rollicking airs on horns, doodlesacks, fipple-flut.

He reminded Jesse of an old Jew in the Milan marketplace, a mountain of a man in a black Astrakhan coat, with flowing earlocks and beard, who moved slowly or not at all, depending on the weather.

On a certain day in that same spring, when it was nearing Eastertide, King Olaf was passing down the street, when by the marketplace a man met him, and offered to sell him some very fine spring vegetables.

It was rather exciting to him, since he had never been allowed to explore the marketplaces in Thendara, and he was disappointed when Herm said it was time to go back to the inn.

The Jugged Hare, her attention was drawn by the faint sound of bells and a heady fragrance of incense, both wafting from a small striped tent in a far corner of the marketplace.

The tawdry procession re-formed and weaved off through the gate down the common line of the Via Latina and the Via Appia, with half the people from the marketplace following and cheering.

The marketplace seemed as big as all of Moonglow, with hundreds of customers wandering the crowded streets.

Because she was first in the local marketplace and her products were exceptional, she now owns the market as far as her product line is concerned.

Do you constantly review competitive products in order to stay ahead in the marketplace?

Theron said, and began leading Soja to the marketplace where he was sure Mitsos would be.