on the market

Idioms  

1. For sale; also, available for buying. For example, We've put the boat on the market, or This is the only tandem bicycle on the market right now. This phrase, first put as in the market, dates from the late 1600s; the first recorded use of the phrase with on was in 1891. Also see drug on the market.

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Example Sentences

By the time coalition forces entered Iraq and Kuwait in February, oil from the SPR was on the market.

From The Wall Street Journal

And that finding, based on the closest thing you can get to gold-standard methodology in the real world, is among the reasons that a worldwide group of scientists have placed the shingles vaccine at the head of a list of drugs already on the market that they want studied in more detail for their possible benefits in the war on dementia.

From MarketWatch

The expert panel in total identified eight drugs already on the market that may help fight or prevent dementia, and which they say merit further investigation.

From MarketWatch

There are blood tests on the market that can screen for multiple cancers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet despite being on the market, none of the “multi-cancer, early detection” tests are currently FDA approved.

From The Wall Street Journal