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 marketplace will decide how many screens there are.
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Baker reacquired StubHub in 2020 for roughly $4 billion through his new company Viagogo, which operates a ticket marketplace in Europe.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
The company plans to make its technology accessible through cloud marketplaces like AWS and Google Cloud, where customers can directly use the system on their own code.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Baker reacquired StubHub in 2020 for roughly $4 billion through his new company Viagogo, which operates a ticket marketplace in Europe.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
The company plans to make its technology accessible through cloud marketplaces like AWS and Google Cloud, where customers can directly use the system on their own code.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketplace
Noun
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Many assets generate valuable data and are integrated within broader ecosystems of energy, logistics, and commerce.—
Maurice Obeid,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Allmodern’s Racheal rug is a favorite of commerce editor Audrey Lee, who was looking for a low-pile wool rug that wouldn’t need constant vacuuming.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
16 Sep. 2025
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He was acquired, along with closer Victor Vodnik, in a July 2023 trade with the Braves for reliever Pierce Johnson.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
17 Sep. 2025
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European businesses will be closely watching that meeting, as China is the EU’s second-largest goods partner with trade standing at $732 billion euros in 2024.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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There’s also Seo (Hong Kyung), a young Korean Air Force lieutenant drafted for his training on advanced foreign air-traffic radar control systems.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
20 Sep. 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,
Kansas City Star,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Marketplace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketplace. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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