I.
noun
1 place where people go to buy and sell things
ADJECTIVE
▪ open-air , outdoor , street
▪ covered , indoor (both esp. BrE )
▪ cattle , fruit and vegetable , etc.
▪ antique , antiques
▪ farmers'
▪
She buys her vegetables from the local farmers' ~.
▪ flea (= that sells old or used goods at low prices)
VERB + MARKET
▪ hold
▪
The ~ is held on Wednesdays.
▪ go to
▪ take sth to
▪
They took the pigs to ~.
MARKET + NOUN
▪ square
▪ town ( esp. BrE )
▪ day
▪ trader ( esp. BrE )
▪ stall
PREPOSITION
▪ at a/the ~ , in a/the ~
▪
I want to buy some fresh fish at the ~.
2 business/trade
ADJECTIVE
▪ competitive
▪ active , booming , bullish , lively , strong , thriving
▪ bull ( finance ), rising
▪ depressed , sluggish , weak
▪ bear ( finance ), falling
▪ steady
▪ buyer's , seller's
▪ foreign , global , international , overseas , world
▪ domestic , home , internal , local
▪ consumer , retail
▪
The disks are designed for professional applications, rather than the consumer ~.
▪ single
▪
the completion of the European single ~ in 1992
▪ common
▪ economic
▪ free
▪ open
▪ black (= illegal)
▪ bond , capital , commodity , credit , currency , equity , financial , foreign-exchange , futures , money , securities , stock
▪ export
▪ housing , property ( esp. BrE ), real estate ( AmE )
▪ art , car , computer , etc.
▪ job , labour/labor
VERB + MARKET
▪ put sth on
▪ come on , come onto , hit
▪
A new model has come on the ~.
▪ develop , expand
▪ break into , enter , get into , penetrate
▪
They're hoping to get into the Far Eastern ~.
▪ capture , corner , dominate , monopolize
▪ control , drive
▪
A relatively small group of collectors drives the art ~.
▪ distort , manipulate
▪
Government attempts to manipulate currency ~s tend to backfire.
▪ supply
▪ flood , saturate
▪
Lenders have flooded the ~ with easy credit.
▪
The ~ was flooded with cheap foreign goods.
▪ lose
▪ depress
▪ play
▪
an investor who knows how to play the market—and win
▪ outperform
▪
He believes oil stocks will outperform the ~ over the next 12 months.
MARKET + VERB
▪ open up
▪
The Chinese ~ has opened up recently.
▪ boom , grow
▪
The organic food ~ is growing at 10% a year.
▪ develop , evolve , mature
▪
Markets evolve in response to consumer demands.
▪ pick up , rally
▪ decline
▪ collapse , crash , slump , tank ( informal , esp. AmE )
▪ bottom ( esp. AmE ), bottom out
▪ be down , be up
▪
The ~ was down 15%.
▪ react , respond
▪
The ~s reacted quickly to the negative publicity.
▪ close
▪
The stock ~ closed weaker.
▪ open
MARKET + NOUN
▪ price , value
▪ conditions
▪ volatility
▪ leader
▪ position , share
▪ penetration
▪ sector
▪ trends
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~ , into a/the ~
▪
changes in the UK ~
▪ on the ~
▪
one of the best car deals on the ~
▪ ~ in
▪
a thriving ~ in second-hand cars
PHRASES
▪ be in the ~ for sth (= be interested in buying sth)
▪ the bottom drops out of the ~ , the bottom falls out of the ~ (= the market collapses)
▪ a gap in the ~ ( esp. BrE )
▪
They seem to have identified a gap in the ~.
▪ the bottom, lower, top, upper, etc. end of the ~
▪ price sb/yourself out of the ~
▪
Rising mortgage rates will price some people out of the ~.
3 people who want to buy sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , broad , good , huge , large
▪ mass
▪
Their books were geared to a mass ~.
▪ commercial
▪
There is not a broad commercial ~ for these prints.
▪ poor , small
▪ emerging
▪
Emerging ~s in Asia and Latin America represent the best export opportunities for us.
▪ expanding , growing
▪ shrinking
▪ ready
▪ niche
▪ target
▪
The young, health-conscious female consumer is our target ~.
▪ lucrative
▪
Single professionals with no children are a lucrative ~.
VERB + MARKET
▪ create
▪
The company has created a niche ~ for itself.
▪ target
▪
Both products are targeting the same ~.
▪ reach , tap , tap into
▪
Giving away free toys is a popular way to tap the family ~.
▪ serve
▪
Organic product lines have expanded from serving a small niche ~.
MARKET + VERB
▪ expand , grow
▪ shrink
▪ collapse
▪ bear sth
▪
We will charge whatever the ~ will bear (= as much as people can be persuaded to pay) .
MARKET + NOUN
▪ segment
▪ niche
▪ research
▪ researcher
▪ demand
▪
The ~ demand for greener housing is growing.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ for
▪
the ~ for new cars
4 the free market
VERB + MARKET
▪ leave sth to
▪
Some services cannot be left to the ~.
▪ regulate
▪
He believes that regulating the ~ is a good thing.
▪ deregulate
MARKET + NOUN
▪ forces
▪ economy
▪ economics
▪ reforms
▪
The government embraced Anglo-American style ~ reforms.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ commercially
▪
the first commercially ~ed rice harvester
▪ heavily
▪ effectively , successfully
▪ cleverly
▪ aggressively
▪ actively
▪ directly
▪
Many farmers have taken steps to directly ~ their meat to consumers.
▪ exclusively , specifically
▪
The low-alcohol wine is being ~ed exclusively to women.
▪ online
▪
All her products are ~ed online on her website.
PREPOSITION
▪ as
▪
It will be ~ed as a tonic for the elderly.
▪ through
▪
The product is being ~ed through the existing sales force.
▪ to
▪
The company is not actively ~ing its products to schools.
Market is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ drug , ↑ invention , ↑ movie , ↑ produce , ↑ product , ↑ wares