bazaar

4 definitions found

bazaar - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bazaar \Ba*zaar"\ Bazar \Ba*zar"\(b[.a]*z[aum]r"), n. [Per.
     b[=a]zar market.]
     1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of
        shops where goods are exposed for sale.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods,
        as at a fair.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly
        for a charitable purpose. --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster] BC

bazaar - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bazaar
      n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar,
           bazar]
      2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn:
         bazaar, bazar]
      3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
         [syn: bazaar, fair]

bazaar - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  bazaar
   n.,adj.
  
     In 1997, after meditating on the success of Linux for three years,
     the Jargon File's own editor ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker
     culture and development models titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
     The main argument of the paper was that Brooks's Law is not the
     whole story; given the right social machinery, debugging can be
     efficiently parallelized across large numbers of programmers. The
     title metaphor caught on (see also cathedral), and the style of
     development typical in the Linux community is now often referred to
  as
     the bazaar mode. Its characteristics include releasing code early and
     often, and actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer
     reviewers. After 1998, the evident success of this way of doing
  things
     became one of the strongest arguments for open source.
  

bazaar - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "bazaar":
     auto show, boat show, closing-out sale, commercial complex,
     distress sale, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, flea market,
     garage sale, going-out-of-business sale, inventory-clearance sale,
     market, market overt, marketplace, mart, open market, plaza,
     rialto, rummage sale, sale, shopping center, shopping mall,
     shopping plaza, show, staple, street market, tax sale, trade fair,
     white elephant sale