open market, exchange, trading center; shopping center, commercial resort, place of traffic, forum, market town, Hist, staple; fair, exposition, emporium, rialto.
2. grocery, grocery store, food store, food mart, deli-catessan, Inf. dely or deli, Brit, cash and carry, supermarket, Brit, hypermarket; meat market, butchery, butcher shop, butcher, Obs. butcher-row; vegetable or produce stand or mart, fruit and vegetable stand.
3. trade, traffic, sale, commerce, transaction, interchange, commercial enterprise, marketing, nundina-tion; buying and selling, business, mercantry, mercantilism, commercialism, jobbing, brokerage, speculation; Inf. truck, dealing, barter, bargaining, negotiation, swap; hucksterism, haggling, hassling, hustling, chaffer, mongering.
4. demand, call, call for, request, appeal; need, want, desire.
5. price, current price, market price, exchange rate, rate, cost, amount, charge, expense; quotation, estimation, appraisal, appraisement, assessment, valuation; value, worth, monetary worth, equivalent, money's worth, par.
6. in the market for in need of, wanting, lacking, without; ready or looking or seeking to buy.
7. on the market for sale, up for sale, available, obtainable, at hand, purchasable, accessible, attainable. -v. 8. deal, traffic, trade, transact, exchange, interchange, buy and sell, job, speculate, Inf. truck, nundinate, handle, negotiate; bargain, barter, higgle, haggle, chaffer, Scot. argle-bargle.
9. transport, ship, send, dispatch, convey, freight, post, express, consign, send off; truck, move, cart, run, deliver, haul, carry, bring, transmit.
10. sell, sell off, retail, dispense, dispose of, regrate, auction, furnish, offer, offer for sale, put up for sale, vend, peddle, hawk, hustle; undersell, undercharge, undercut, sell at a loss, unload, dump.
marketable, adj. 1. salable, vendible, merchantable, Obs., Rare, merchandisable, commerceable, exchangeable, interchangeable, staple; readily-sold, of ready sale, disposable; in demand, sought-after, desirable, desired, wanted, needed, requested, called-for; in vogue, fashionable, popular, Sl. hot.
2. commercial, mercantile, Rare, mercatorial; retail, wholesale; for sale, up for sale, on the market, available, obtainable, purchasable, at hand, accessible, attainable.
marksman, n. sharpshooter, rifleman, bersagliere; good shot, crack shot, dead shot, Sl. deadeye.
maroon, v. abandon, forsake, cast off, leave behind, turn one's back upon; isolate, seclude, cut off.
marriage, n. 1. matrimony, holy matrimony, wedlock, holy wedlock; bond of matrimony, conjugal bond or tie or knot, wedding knot; match.
2. wedding, nuptials, espousals, spousals, espouse-ment, bridal, hymeneal rites; wedding song, nuptial song, hymeneal, prothalamium, epithalamium.
3. alliance, union, affiliation, association, merger, liaison, Inf. hook-up, Sl. tie-up; unification, incorporation, amalgamation, consolidation, integration.
marriageable, adj. nubile, marriable, ripe, in full bloom; of age, at the age of consent.
married, adj. 1. wedded, united in wedlock, joined in holy matrimony, one, one body and one flesh; mated, matched, coupled, spliced, yoked.
2. marital, matrimonial, connubial, spousal, conjugal, bridal, nuptial, epithalamial, hymeneal; wifely, husbandly.
marrow, n. 1. core, pith, kernel, nucleus, Anat. medulla; center, focus, focal point, Inf. nub; sap, spirit, heart, soul, heart and soul; gist, sum and substance; matter substance, stuff, meat, nuts and bolts, Inf. nitty-gritty.