Common Market

noun

1. Official_name European Economic Community. an economic association established in 1958 and originally composed of Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany, created chiefly to abolish barriers to free trade among member nations and to adopt common import duties on goods from other countries: the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Denmark joined in 1973, Greece joined in 1981, and Spain and Portugal joined in 1986. : CM
2. (sometimes lowercase) any economic association of nations created for a similar purpose.

Common Market

noun

1. See European Economic Community
   the Common Market obsolete.
   the Common Market an informal name for European Economic Community

Word History and Origins

Origin of Common Market¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

This is what Germans and Frenchmen began to work on when they formed the makings of a common market in the beginning of the 1950s.

From The Daily Beast

In a day when such things were not common Market Street church got deeply into matters civic.

From Project Gutenberg

Paying relief work at the common market rate of wages is attended with the same objection.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a group of six distinct clusters, gathered around a common market.

From Project Gutenberg

I have egg boxes for the purpose, in which the eggs are set on end, like the common market box.

From Project Gutenberg

They were, moreover, rates from two places out to a common market.

From Project Gutenberg