<B>mark</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a German unit of money. The mark is now called the Deutsche mark, and is equal to 100 pfennigs. <DD><B> 2. </B>a coin or paper note equal to the mark. (Abbr:) M. <DD><B> 3. </B>an old weight for gold and silver, equal to 8 ounces. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=markka.</B> <DD><B> 5. </B>a former Scottish silver coin, worth slightly more than 13 shillings. </DL>
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<B>Mark, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of the four Evangelists, a fellow worker with the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Peter; Saint Mark. <DD><B> 2. </B>the second book of the New Testament, attributed to the Apostle Mark. It tells the story of the life of Christ. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>King,</B> (Arthurian Legend.) a king of Cornwall, the uncle of Tristan and husband of Iseult. </DL>
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<B>markdown, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a decrease in the price of an article. <BR> <I>Ex. Spurts of selling--mostly in small blocks--touched off almost hourly markdowns (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the amount of this decrease. <DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or characteristic of a markdown. <BR> <I>Ex. markdown prices.</I> </DL>
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<B>marked, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a mark or marks. <BR> <I>Ex. a marked table, marked money.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) very noticeable; very plain; easily recognized. <BR> <I>Ex. There are marked differences between apples and oranges.</I> (SYN) prominent, conspicuous, outstanding. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) distinguished or singled out as if by a mark. <BR> <I>Ex. Even as a youth he was marked for success.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>made note of as an object of suspicion, hatred, or vengeance. <BR> <I>Ex. When the gang discovered his hiding place, he knew he was a marked man.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Linguistics.) that indicates a distinctive class, function, or other feature. (Examples:) In the pair of phonemes <I>d</I> and <I>t, d</I> is marked for voicing. The suffix <I>-s</I> in boys is marked for plurality. </DL>
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<B>markedly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a marked manner or degree; conspicuously; noticeably; plainly. <BR> <I>Ex. After this, the air temperature is known to rise markedly (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>markedness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>marked quality or condition. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Linguistics.) the quality or condition of being distinguished by a particular feature. <BR> <I>Ex. Every single constituent of any linguistic system is built on an opposition of two logical contradictories: the presence of an attribute ("markedness") in contraposition to its absence ("unmarkedness") (Roman Jakobson).</I> </DL>
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<B>marker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that marks. <BR> <I>Ex. Holding a black marker in his hand, the clerk numbered each carton as he counted them.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person or device that keeps the score in a game. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Sports.) <DD><B> a. </B>a line or mark indicating position on a playing field. <BR> <I>Ex. ... went over standing up from the 7-yard marker (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a score. <BR> <I>Ex. ... accounted for the first West Point marker on a 2-yard plunge (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a counter used in card games. <DD><B> 5. </B><B>=bookmark.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Put a marker in that book ... page seventy-four (Samuel Lover).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a pledge of payment, especially of a gambling debt; an I.O.U. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Linguistics.) any unit that indicates a distinctive class, function, or other feature. <BR> <I>Ex. a number marker, a person marker, the plural marker -s.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B><B>=genetic marker.</B> <DD><B> 9. </B>a machine formerly used to cut grooves in square patterns in ice covering a stream, pond, or lake, so that blocks could be cut for commercial use. </DL>
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<B>market, </B>noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a meeting of people for buying and selling. <BR> <I>Ex. To market, to market, To buy a fat pig (Nursery Rhyme).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the people at such a meeting. <BR> <I>Ex. Excitement stirred the market.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an open space or covered building in which food, cattle, and other things are shown for sale. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the busy market square, where piles of vari-colored fruits and vegetables gleam (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a store for the sale of food. <BR> <I>Ex. a meat market.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>trade or traders, especially as regards a particular article. <BR> <I>Ex. the cotton market, the grain market, the best shoes in the market.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>the demand (for something); price offered. <BR> <I>Ex. a rising market for automobiles. The drought created a high market for corn.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a region where goods may be sold; center of trade. <BR> <I>Ex. South America is a market for American automobiles.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a chance to sell or buy. <BR> <I>Ex. to lose one's market. There is always a market for wheat. Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? (Robert Frost).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to sell. <BR> <I>Ex. The farmer cannot market all of his wheat.</I> <DD><B> 1. </B>to carry or send to market. <BR> <I>Ex. The peasants marketed all their surplus produce.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to buy or sell in a market. <DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or characteristic of a market. <BR> <I>Ex. the housewife's market basket.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>at the market,</B> </I>at the price current when a broker sells or buys for a customer. <BR> <I>Ex. Jackson found that brokers had put in orders to buy 77,000 shares at the market (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>be in the market for,</B> </I>to be a possible buyer of. <BR> <I>Ex. If you are in the market for a used car, that dealer has some fine bargains.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>glut the market,</B> </I>to offer on a market a quantity, as of a commodity or stock, so greatly in excess of demand as to make the item unsalable except at a very low price. <BR> <I>Ex. The price for wheat dropped when the market was glutted with it.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>play the market,</B> </I>to speculate on the stock exchange. <BR> <I>Ex. He has been playing the market on tips.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>price out of the market,</B> </I>to lose business by setting a price above that of competitors or above what buyers will pay. <BR> <I>Ex. Many U.S. firms are pricing themselves out of the Far Eastern Market because of high prices and their reluctance to accept deferred payments. (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>marketability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being marketable. <BR> <I>Ex. Voting rights would substantially increase the marketability of the shares (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>marketable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that can be sold; salable. <BR> <I>Ex. Farmers therefore use less time and less food to bring stock to marketable weight (Science News).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with buying or selling. adv. <B>marketably.</B> </DL>
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<B>market analysis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the extent, characteristics, and potential of a given market. </DL>
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<B>market economy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an economic system based on free enterprise; capitalism. <BR> <I>Ex. This switch to a kind of market economy apparently has made [former] East German industry much more efficient (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>marketeer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who sells in a market. </DL>
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<B>marketer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who goes to market. <BR> <I>Ex. They could not walk side by side in that throng of marketers--women with shopping baskets, women pushing ... (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who buys or sells in a market. <BR> <I>Ex. Happily for the marketers, Americans by nature seem to relish learning to want new things (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>market garden,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a farm or garden where vegetables are grown for market; truck farm. </DL>
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<B>market gardener,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who operates a market garden; truck farmer. </DL>
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<B>market gardening,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the business of operating a market garden; truck farming. </DL>
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<B>marketing, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act or fact of trading in a market; buying or selling. <BR> <I>Ex. Marketings for the first two days of the week dwindled to the lowest point for a like period in more than three years (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something bought or sold in a market. <DD><B> 3. </B>the bringing of merchandise, livestock, or other commodity to market. <DD><B> 4. </B>the action of shopping for groceries, small items, and the like. <BR> <I>Ex. Sometimes we took her cakes for tea, or a pot of soup, or did her marketing (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or characteristic of marketing. <BR> <I>Ex. marketing research, marketing men.</I> </DL>
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<B>market letter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a newsletter containing information and advice on the stock market, issued by a stockbroker or investment advisory firm to its customers. </DL>
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<B>marketman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man who sells in a market. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who buys in a market. </DL>
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<B>market order,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an order to buy or sell a comodity, stock, or other security at whatever price may be current when the transaction is completed. </DL>
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<B>market place,</B> or <B>marketplace, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the place where a market is held, usually an open space or a square in a town. <BR> <I>Ex. In open market place produced they me, To be a public spectacle to all (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the world of commerce. <BR> <I>Ex. "The inexorable law of the market place," he argued, "is that a business which cannot compete, cannot survive" (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>market price,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the price that an article brings when sold; current price. </DL>
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<B>market research,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the study of what makes people buy or not buy a product, when they do it, how long they may continue, and other similar buying habits. </DL>
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<B>market town,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a town in which markets are held at stated times, by privilege, as in England. </DL>
