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noun

marketplace

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

In a sentence

Six example sentences with marketplace, each labelled with its topic.

  • Two funded rivals launched the same week, and our tiny app entered a marketplace already crowded with better-known names.

    Startups

  • In an open marketplace, a shortage lifts prices until suppliers who had been idle find it worth producing again.

    Economics

  • Streaming turned the marketplace for recorded songs upside down, and vinyl reissues now earn more per copy than downloads.

    Music

  • Once the phone maker opened an app marketplace, a teenager's weather app could reach millions without a single shop.

    Technology

  • The in-game marketplace lets players trade skins, and a rare one sold last week for more than the console itself.

    Gaming

  • Online galleries created a marketplace where a painter in a small town can sell a canvas to a collector abroad.

    Art

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