open market
noun [S]Definition
› a situation in which companies can trade freely without limits, and prices are changed according to the number of goods and how many people are buying them: In the meantime, the shares will continue to trade on the open market.Business and commerce - general words
(Definition of open market noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- B2C
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- devolution noun
- devolve sth to sb phrasal verb
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- mass market noun
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