market cross

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market cross - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Market \Mar"ket\, n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. mark[=a]t,
     merk[=a]t, G. markt; all fr.L. mercatus trade, market place,
     fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to trade, traffic, merx, mercis,
     ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere to deserve, gain,
     acquire: cf. F. march['e]. See Merit, and cf. Merchant,
     Mart.]
     1. 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.
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              He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares
              At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Three women and a goose make a market. --Old Saying.
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     2. 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.
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              There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.
                                                    --John v. 2.
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     3. 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.
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              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. --J.
                                                    S. Mill.
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     4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull
        market; a slow market.
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     5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market
        price. Hence: Value; worth.
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              What is a man
              If his chief good and market of his time
              Be but to sleep and feed?             --Shak.
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     6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a
        public market.
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     7. 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.
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     Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming
           compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market
           day, market folk, market house, marketman, market
           place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market
           woman, and the like.
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     Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.]
        --Chaucer.
  
     Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and
        selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] --Shak.
  
     Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held.
        --Shak.
  
     Market garden, a garden in which vegetables are raised for
        market.
  
     Market gardening, the raising of vegetables for market.
  
     Market place, an open square or place in a town where
        markets or public sales are held.
  
     Market town, a town that has the privilege of a stated
        public market.
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market cross - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  market cross
      n 1: a cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town
           where public business is often conducted