- market, marketplace - the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"
--1 is a kind of activity
--1 has parts: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
--1 has particulars:black market; buyer's market, buyers' market; gray market; seller's market, sellers' market; labor market; monopoly; monopsony; oligopoly - marketplace, mart - an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
--2 is a kind of mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet
--2 has particulars:agora, forum, public square; bazaar, bazar; grocery store, grocery, food market, market; open-air market, open-air marketplace, market square; slave market; agora; flea market