"marketplace" in the noun sense
1. market, marketplace, market place
the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
"without competition there would be no market"
"they were driven from the marketplace"
2. marketplace, market place, mart, market
an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
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