as in commerce
the buying and selling of goods especially on a large scale and between different places
nations struggling to compete in the global marketplace
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Recent Examples of marketplace
The company’s exact tariff exposure varies depending on whether the item is sold through Amazon’s first-party business or a third-party seller operating on the marketplace, according to Wells Fargo.
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Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
Like many other marketplace platforms, Temu effectively has two buckets of customers: its vendors and its end consumers.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 7 Apr. 2025
In a competitive global marketplace, the change in direction certainly appears to demonstrate Established & Sons’s eagerness to cast aside its prodigal image in favor of a leaner, smarter approach to the design business.
—Ian Volner, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
The marketplace is structured into vertical-specific segments that include dedicated spaces for advertising services, live events, animation and VFX, extended reality technologies, film projects, game development, radio and podcasting, comics and e-books, web series, and music and sound design.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Mar. 2025
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Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
Like many other marketplace platforms, Temu effectively has two buckets of customers: its vendors and its end consumers.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 7 Apr. 2025
In a competitive global marketplace, the change in direction certainly appears to demonstrate Established & Sons’s eagerness to cast aside its prodigal image in favor of a leaner, smarter approach to the design business.
—Ian Volner, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
The marketplace is structured into vertical-specific segments that include dedicated spaces for advertising services, live events, animation and VFX, extended reality technologies, film projects, game development, radio and podcasting, comics and e-books, web series, and music and sound design.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketplace
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Ryan Reynolds, who moonlights as co-owner of Welsh soccer club Wrexham A.F.C., turned up alongside super-creator Taylor Sheridan (whose own athletics usually involve cattle), NBA investor Mark Cuban and former Obama commerce secretary Penny Prtizker.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Despite maintaining its position as a leading commerce infrastructure provider, the company faces intensifying competition from Amazon, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and a host of new specialized e-commerce tools.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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But exactly what are the opportunities and what are the risks now that President Donald Trump is trying to reorder the global economy with an unprecedented trade war?—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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What strikes Vecchione about this growing legal consensus is that the business giants who stand to lose the most under a trade war have yet to put up a fight.—
Cristian Farias,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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Nai Lert Park is a lush, seven-acre pocket of tropical landscaping in the heart of downtown, making the hotel feel like an urban sanctuary in the truest sense: the air smelled faintly of frangipani; the chirping of birds overpowered the traffic din.—
Chris Schaklx,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Apr. 2025
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Here’s what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Marketplace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketplace. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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