market

Pronunciation: ['mɑ:kit]

Average Rank: 1563

Source: ECDICT

n. 市场, 交易, 集市, 推销地区, 行情, 市面, 销路 vt. 在市场上交易, 使上市, 销售 vi. 在市场上买卖

n. the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
n. the customers for a particular product or service
n. the securities markets in the aggregate
v. engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of

Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk ielts

Plural: markets

Past Participle: marketed

Past: marketed

Present Participle: marketing

3rd Person: markets

Word Frequency Rankings

#464

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 95.4% (Top 95.4% most frequent)

95.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#2041

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 79.6% (Top 79.6% most frequent)

79.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

#2183

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 78.2% (Top 78.2% most frequent)

78.2%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.