marketplace

or mar·ket place

[ mahr-kit-pleys ]

noun

1. an open area in a town where a market is held.
2. the commercial world; the realm of business, trade, and economics.
3. any sphere considered as a place where ideas, thoughts, artistic creations, etc., compete for recognition.

marketplace

/ ˈmɑːkɪtˌpleɪs /

noun

1. a place where a public market is held
2. any centre where ideas, opinions, etc, are exchanged
3. the commercial world of buying and selling

Word History and Origins

Origin of marketplace¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; market, place

Example Sentences

All these metrics that can easily be tracked can reveal your app’s discoverability in the app marketplaces.

From Search Engine Watch

In a blog post, Amazon said it would back the bill, provided the language was amended so all stores and marketplaces were held to the same standards, regardless of their model for collecting fees.

From Quartz

For our programmatic data-driven business, our private marketplace revenue has grown north of 50% in the last year.

From Digiday

The remainder of 2020 will be crucial for brands to win Share of Voice in these marketplaces and start building a customer base.

From Search Engine Land

These new curated marketplaces, however, don’t come at a premium — at least not yet.

From Digiday

So the CIW has looked to the marketplace to enforce these guarantees.

From The Daily Beast

And he instinctively understood the marketplace—whether of ideas or something more concrete.

From The Daily Beast

“The goal of our website is to turn that process into a large marketplace,” says Horrigan, who hopes to grow the site nationally.

From The Daily Beast

And when a fraudulent work hits the marketplace, it tends to circulate.

From The Daily Beast

The charge against Morgan involved the sale of a rifle listed with an online gun marketplace called the Carolina Shooters Club.

From The Daily Beast

It was that one day in the marketplace lingered Olaf Tryggvason when there was a gathering of many people.

From Project Gutenberg

By Saint Michael of the Marketplace, you might as well call a black bullock's hide a white heifer's!

From Project Gutenberg

Human weakness and rotten moral force were never stripped so bare or so mercilessly jeered at in the marketplace.

From Project Gutenberg

At the Bushmills end, the line is laid for about 200 yards along the street, and ends in the marketplace of the town.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a wandering gleeman who came into the marketplace on the hill top, and we stood and listened to him.

From Project Gutenberg

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