(n) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold, Syn. marketplace, market place, Example:without competition there would be no market; they were driven from the marketplace
[らくいちらくざ, rakuichirakuza] (n) free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)