marketplace

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
noun an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

From market + place.

In the marketplace or in life." — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
In the marketplace it has another sense. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
“Thomas Tubbs wended his way to the marketplace. — Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp, Horatio, Jr. Alger

market, market place

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