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marketplace
What does marketplace mean?
marketplace (noun): the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use marketplace in a sentence?
- They were driven from the marketplace. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
Where does marketplace come from?
From market + place.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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