Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trading center; a market.
- noun A place where goods are sold; a store.
- noun Archaic A fair.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To traffic; deal.
- To make market for; trade in; buy and sell; deal in or with.
- noun A place of sale or traffic; seat of trade; market.
- noun Trade; traffic; purchase and sale; market.
- noun Same as
Mars , 1. - noun [capitalized] Martinmas.
- noun A cow or ox fattened to be killed (usually about Martinmas) and salted or smoked for winter provision.
- noun Same as
marque - noun The marten.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart.
- noun A market.
- noun obsolete A bargain.
- transitive verb obsolete To traffic.
- noun obsolete The god Mars.
- noun obsolete Battle; contest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Mart — The god Mars.
- noun obsolete
Battle ;contest . - noun A
market . - noun obsolete A
bargain . - verb obsolete To
buy orsell in, or as in a mart. - verb obsolete To
traffic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Learn the crafts and the skills and never be at a loss because the thrall mart is out of stock.
First serious bow?q 2009
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They also refuse to allow their employees to unionize, and generally pay low wages, and instead of hiring more people install automated tellers Wal-mart is having a horrible effect on rural communities and the U.S. ecomony.
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They also refuse to allow their employees to unionize, and generally pay low wages, and instead of hiring more people install automated tellers Wal-mart is having a horrible effect on rural communities and the U.S. ecomony.
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Learn the crafts and the skills and never be at a loss because the thrall mart is out of stock.
First serious bow?q 2009
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Wal-mart is part of this, and they have to be to exist.
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I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange.
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Link wal-mart has institutionalized hypocrisy. they sell massive amounts of chinese goods while trumpeting their americanism. now, they create a political enviorment that encourages republican repression instead of american freedom. wal-mart is un-american.period. —
Groups to File Complaint Against Wal-Mart - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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A project for opening the navigation of the Indus and Sutlej has lately been formed and an extensive mart is to be established at Mithenkote.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Wal-mart is so eager to get people in and spending that they are offering to cash the cheques for free and offer deals. (you pay to cash cheques?)
Archive 2008-04-27 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008
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I know that Wal-mart is making some impressive strides towards being more sustainable.
Wal-Mart May Remove 9 Million Plastic Bags from the Waste Stream - Big Whoop 2008
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