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noun

Chiefly British. truck farm.

(initial capital letters)Military. the Allied code name for the unsuccessful invasion of Holland by British and American airborne and infantry forces on September 17, 1944.

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Origin of market garden

First recorded in 1805–15

OTHER WORDS FROM market garden

market gardener, nounmarket gardening, noun

Words nearby market garden

market basket, market boat, market economy, marketeer, market forces, market garden, market gardening, marketing, marketing mix, marketing research, market letter

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How to use market garden in a sentence

In the subsequent years, I have become a beekeeper and a farmer of a small market garden.
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It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
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Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
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Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
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Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
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Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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Ten minutes later, veiled and cloaked, she stepped out alone into the garden.
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It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.
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Of course it is only the hardiest Ferns which can be expected to grow well in the town garden.
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In such conditions many kinds which do not flourish very freely in the open garden, grow into handsome specimens.
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British Dictionary definitions for market garden

market garden

noun

mainly British an establishment where fruit and vegetables are grown for sale

Derived forms of market garden

market gardener, noun

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