an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold |
a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling | a marketplace where groceries are sold |
people having the same social, economic, or educational status | an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up |
one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) | the customers for a particular product or service |
| the securities markets in the aggregate |