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4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic;
as, a dull market; a slow market.

5. The price for which a thing is sold in a
market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.

What is a man

If his chief good and market of his time

Be but to sleep and feed ?

6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to
a town of having a public market.

&fist; 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.

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.


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