He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares
At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak.

Three women and a goose make a market. Old Saying.

There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool. John v. 2.

There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market. J. S. Mill.

What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed ? Shak.

* Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like.

Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] Shak. -- Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held. Shak. -- Market garden, a garden in which vegetables are raised for market. -- Market gardening, the raising of vegetables for market. -- Market place, an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held. -- Market town, a town that has the privilege of a stated public market.

Industrious merchants meet, and market there
The world's collected wealth. Southey.