marketplaces
Where commerce happens
Marketplaces are locations where buyers and sellers gather to trade goods and services.
The term covers physical spaces like farmers' markets and bazaars as well as digital platforms where commerce happens online: Amazon and eBay are the dominant online marketplaces.
Figuratively, marketplace describes any arena of exchange or competition: the marketplace of ideas.
Open-air merchant district
- soukTraditional Arab market
- agoraGreek civic square
- stallsDelays or compartments
- vendorsThose who sell goods
haggling · booths · mercado · hawkers · arcade · medina · pushcarts · open-air
Greek warrior women
- eBayWeb auction marketplace
- EtsyHandmade goods marketplace
- platformRaised flat structure
- listingsPublished directory contents
sellers · buyers · checkout · reviews · ratings · storefronts · e-commerce · Alibaba
Furnish or stock
- demandForceful request or requirement
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- tradeExchange of commodities
buyers · sellers · pricing · commodities · liquidity · efficiency · transactions · equilibrium
Giving someone work
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- gig economyWork based on temporary contracts
- freelanceSelf-employed project work
- UpworkFreelancer hiring website
Fiverr · talent · job boards · contractors · matching · employers · candidates · skills
Creating something original
- startupsNewly launched businesses
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
- licensingGranting official permission
venture capital · pitching · disruption · incubators · accelerators · thought leadership · solutions · competition
bazaar
Open-air merchant district
vendors · haggling · booths · mercado · hawkers · arcade · medina · pushcarts · open-air · piazza
Amazon
Greek warrior women
listings · sellers · buyers · checkout · reviews · ratings · storefronts · e-commerce · Alibaba · dropshipping
supply
Furnish or stock
- demandForceful request or requirement
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
trade · buyers · sellers · pricing · commodities · liquidity · efficiency · transactions · equilibrium · allocation
hiring
Giving someone work
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- gig economyWork based on temporary contracts
- freelanceSelf-employed project work
Upwork · Fiverr · talent · job boards · contractors · matching · employers · candidates · skills · wages
innovation
Creating something original
- startupsNewly launched businesses
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
licensing · venture capital · pitching · disruption · incubators · accelerators · thought leadership · solutions · competition · validation
- Medieval GermanyHoly Roman Empire, Charlemagne, Franconia, guild system, Swabia
- placescity, town, village, hamlet, building
- retailretail sales, Amazon, clearance, sale, retail clerks
- online servicesweb services, cloud services, SaaS, web hosting, e-commerce
- online shoppingAmazon, cart, checkout, e-commerce, Walmart
- trade & commercetrade, exports, imports, tariffs, merchant
marketplacesprivate sales
Transactions not publicly advertised
insider trading · under-the-table deals · black markets · direct sales · barter
marketplacescommand economies
State-controlled economic systems
central planning · state monopolies · planned economies · rationing systems · collectivization
marketplacesmonasteries
Residences for religious brothers
sanctuaries · wilderness · private residences · hermitages · isolation
- digital marketplaceOnline platform for transactions
- online marketplaceWebsite connecting buyers, sellers
- global marketplace
- Facebook MarketplaceSocial platform's trading section
- virtual marketplaceOnline space for transactions
- marketplace of ideasFree competition among viewpoints