Merchant vs. Market

A person who traffics in commodities for profit.

The owner or operator of a retail business.

A trading vessel; a merchantman.

(obsolete) A supercargo.

As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.

Example: ‘a merchanting service’;

One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.

Example: ‘Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad.’;

A trading vessel; a merchantman.

One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.

Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.

To be a merchant; to trade.

a businessperson engaged in retail trade

a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying goods to a particular trade

Example: ‘a builders' merchant’; ‘a tea merchant’;

a retail trader

Example: ‘the credit cards are accepted by 10 million merchants worldwide’;

a person who deals in something unpleasant

Example: ‘a merchant of death’;

(in historical contexts) a person involved in trade or commerce

Example: ‘prosperous merchants and clothiers had established a middle class’;

a person who has a liking for a particular activity

Example: ‘his driver was no speed merchant’;

(in historical contexts) relating to merchants or commerce

Example: ‘the growth of the merchant classes’;

(of ships, sailors, or shipping activity) involved with commerce rather than military activity

Example: ‘a merchant seaman’;

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Historically, a merchant is anyone who is involved in business or trade.

City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.

An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site.

Example: ‘The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh.’;

Flea market

A group of potential customers for one's product.

Example: ‘We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.’;

A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.

Example: ‘Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.’;

A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.

Example: ‘The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.’;

The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.

(obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.

(transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

Example: ‘We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.’;

(transitive) To sell

Example: ‘''We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!’;

(intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market.

Example: ‘He is wit's peddler; and retails his waresAt wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.’; ‘Three women and a goose make a market.’;

A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.

Example: ‘There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.’;

An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market.

Example: ‘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.’;

Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.

The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.

Example: ‘What is a manIf his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed?’;

The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.

A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market.

To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.

Example: ‘Industrious merchants meet, and market thereThe world's collected wealth.’;

the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold;

Example: ‘without competition there would be no market’; ‘they were driven from the marketplace’;

the securities markets in the aggregate;

Example: ‘the market always frustrates the small investor’;

the customers for a particular product or service;

Example: ‘before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it’;

a marketplace where groceries are sold;

Example: ‘the grocery store included a meat market’;

engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of;

Example: ‘The company is marketing its new line of beauty products’;

buy household supplies;

Example: ‘We go marketing every Saturday’;

deal in a market

make commercial;

Example: ‘Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life’;