Meaning & use
marketing place
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Meanings
nouncountable
The area, group of buyers, or setting in which a company sells its goods or services.
Grammar: Countable, so you can say a marketing place or several marketing places, and it often follows in or into.
Patterns
- a marketing place for something
- enter a new marketing place
- compete in a marketing place
Online shops have become the main marketing place for small clothing brands.
Before launching the drink, the team studied the local marketing place in detail.
A good marketing place is one where customers already want what you sell.
nouncountable
A physical or online location where products are promoted and offered for sale.
Grammar: Countable and often used with at or in when you name the actual spot.
Patterns
- at a marketing place
- open a marketing place
- a busy marketing place
The pop-up stall turned an empty square into a busy marketing place.
Their website works as a marketing place for handmade furniture.
Farmers set up a marketing place beside the main road every Saturday.
Word forms
| plural | marketing places |
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Common combinations
- a new marketing place
- The firm spent a year looking for a new marketing place overseas.
- enter a marketing place
- It is expensive to enter a marketing place that already has strong rivals.
- the domestic marketing place
- Sales in the domestic marketing place fell, so they looked abroad.
- a competitive marketing place
- Cheaper imports have made it a very competitive marketing place.
- target a marketing place
- They target a marketing place of young city renters.
Synonyms and how they differ
- market
- Shorter and far more common; it can mean the same buying-and-selling setting, but it also covers prices, demand, and economics generally.
- marketplace
- Often means the actual place or site where trading happens, and is the usual choice in everyday speech rather than in business plans.
- outlet
- Focuses on the single shop or channel that sells goods, not on the wider group of buyers or the setting.
Word family
- market noun
- The general system or place where goods are bought and sold.
- marketer noun
- A person whose job is to promote and sell products.
- marketing noun
- The activity of promoting and selling products.
- marketable adjective
- Easy to sell because people want it.
Commonly confused: marketing place or marketplace? marketing place or market place?
marketing place vs marketplace
One word and much more common; it usually means the spot or website where buying and selling happens, while the two-word form is the business-planning term for where a company sells.
marketing place vs market place
Written with a space, this usually just means a public square or market area, without the business sense of promoting goods.
Practice
Which sentence uses "marketing place" in the business sense?
Choose one answer.
"Marketing place" in business writing means the area or group of buyers where a company sells, so choosing Brazil as one fits. The other options describe a physical market square, which is normally called a "marketplace" or "market place."
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “marketing place”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.