marketplace

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1 the marketplace BBTthe part of business activity that is concerned with buying and selling goods in competition with other companies 市场〔指涉及营销的种种活动〕

Some retailers worry that new regulations will hurt their ability to compete in the marketplace.

有些零售商担心新规定会削弱他们的市场竞争力。

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the marketplace• The changes should increase our ability to achieve a strong position in the marketplace.

2. SHOP/STOREan open area in a town where a market is held 集市，露天市场

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marketplace• It believes the award will give its distributors and installers competitive advantage in a marketplace where quality is very important.• The changing marketplace may have one other useful impact on the culture.• In this nascent electronic marketplace only an infinitesimal fraction of business transactions are currently handled on the I-way.• Ideas are everything in a fragmented global marketplace, and great ideas demand a diverse work force.• The legal market is being driven by economic rationalisation, demographic saturation, marketplace maturation, consumer-driven deregulation and globalisation.• The feminist movement really has to be about liberating the home as well as the marketplace as a choice.• Or will older people themselves influence the marketplace through their purses, by only selecting those retailers and products which are user-friendly?• There is a discipline behind exchange as well, and you understand it: it is the discipline of the marketplace.

From Longman Business Dictionary

marketplacemar·ket·place /ˈmɑːkətpleɪsˈmɑːr-/ noun [countableC usually singular]COMMERCE

the activities involved in buying and selling a particular type of goods or services, in competition with other companies

Developments in the marketplace require that we reduce our costs to remain competitive.

Excessive pay is hurting America’s ability to compete in the international marketplace.

marketplace for

the rapidly changing marketplace for toys

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