Thesaurus results for MARKETPLACE

marketplace

noun

ˈmär-kət-ˌplās

Definition of marketplace

as in commerce

the buying and selling of goods especially on a large scale and between different places nations struggling to compete in the global marketplace

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Recent Examples of marketplace Other people who lose their insurance may opt to enroll for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, or see if an income drop qualifies their family for Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program coverage. — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 Build relationships with lenders or debt marketplaces (like mine) before cash becomes tight. — Joseph Lustberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Standing in the marketplace Sunday and watching people continue to celebrate despite the heat, Koguchi said the result was more personal than attendance numbers. — Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026 Factory assembly, experts say, could give nuclear power a better chance of competing in the energy marketplace; shipping reactor components to remote parts of Alaska, for example, should be cheaper than building a new gas pipeline there. — Donald Keough, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for marketplace

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This is where NuOrder, the B2B commerce platform, came into the picture.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon.

— Brad Bourque, The Verge, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of commerce

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The industry moves more than 80 percent of global trade by volume.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
Some China watchers, however, are keeping their expectations low, as both sides appear to be more interested in avoiding moves that would risk their current trade truce.

— Justina Lee, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of trade

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The festival, with a capacity of 80,000 people, also was hit with mud and rain in 2023 as many attendees were trapped on its grounds, where vehicle traffic was temporarily limited and some hiked in the mud to nearby towns.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026
So in 1995, the brothers launched a side hustle of their own, offering traffic safety—rental equipment, cones, barricades, and signs on the road, plus 24/7 emergency dispatch—all in one place.

— Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026

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