Associations to the word «Marketplace»

Wiktionary

MARKETPLACE, noun. An open area in a town housing a public market.
MARKETPLACE, noun. The space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates.
MARKETPLACE, noun. (by extension) The world of commerce and trade.

Dictionary definition

MARKETPLACE, noun. The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace".
MARKETPLACE, noun. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats