A financial market where participants buy and sell debt securities, usually in the form of bonds.

(finance) The market for long-term securities, including the stock market and the bond market.

A market where raw or primary products are exchanged.

(economics) The use or result of commercial practices by one market participant or a group of market participants (possibly with governmental assistance) that limit the access of buyers and sellers to each other.

(economics, finance, idiomatic) An excess of demand over supply, leading to abnormally high prices; a market condition favoring the seller.

A relatively small and specialist, yet profitable, market.

Alternative form of marketplace

(trading, economics, finance) A market in which commodities are bought and sold for immediate delivery. Delivery usually takes place in the same or next business day.

An open area in a town housing a public market, often on just one day per week; a marketplace.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see market, day. / The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location.