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Market
(Mar"ket) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Marketing.] To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

Market
(Mar"ket), v. t. 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.

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

Marketable
(Mar"ket*a*ble) a.

1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayed provisions are not marketable.

2. Current in market; as, marketable value.

3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.

Marketableness
(Mar"ket*a*ble*ness), n. Quality of being marketable.

Marketer
(Mar"ket*er) n. One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

Marketing
(Mar"ket*ing), n.

1. The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.

2. Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.

Marketstead
(Mar"ket*stead) n. [Market + stead a place.] A market place. [Obs.] Drayton.

Markhoor
(||Mark"hoor`) n. [Per. mar-khr snake eater.] (Zoöl.) A large wild goat having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.