| query | The job m_____ or the labour market refers to the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do.The job market or the labour market refers to the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do. Every year, 250,000 people enter the job market. ...the changes in the labour market during the 1980s. |
|---|---|
| word | market |
| full-definition | noun A market is a place where goods are bought and sold, usually outdoors . He sold boots on a market stall. The market for a particular type of thing is the number of people who want to buy it, or the area of the world in which it is sold. The foreign market was increasingly crucial. ...the Russian market for personal computers. But there is no youth market in cars. The market refers to the total amount of a product that is sold each year, especially when you are talking about the competition between the companies who sell that product. The two big companies control 72% of the market. The job market or the labour market refers to the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do. Every year, 250,000 people enter the job market. ...the changes in the labour market during the 1980s. The stock market is sometimes referred to as the market . The market collapsed last October. adjective If you talk about a market economy, or the market price of something, you are referring to an economic system in which the prices of things depend on how many are available and how many people want to buy them, rather than prices being fixed by governments . Their ultimate aim was a market economy for Hungary. He must sell the house for the current market value. ...the market price of cocoa. verb To market a product means to organize its sale, by deciding on its price, where it should be sold, and how it should be advertised . ...if you marketed our music the way you market pop music. They have been marketed largely to buyers in America. ...if a soap is marketed as an anti-acne product. |
| inflections | marketsmarketingmarketed |
| cefr-level | B1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.
Next card: Marketplace small area town city goods bought sold
Previous card: Marriage act marrying ceremony i opposed darryl m
Up to card list: Oxford 5000 Word List ft. Collins (English)