A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale at Covent Garden Market and meat is sold wholesale at Smithfield Market. But there are markets for things (1) commodities, in the usual (2) There are (3) estate markets, foreign exchange markets, labour markets, short-term capital markets, and so on; there may be a market for anything that has a price. And there may be no particular place to which dealings are (4) . Buyers and sellers may be (5) over the whole world and instead of actually meeting together in a market-place they may deal with one another (6) telephone, telegram, cable or letter. (7) dealings are (8) to a particular place, the dealers may consist wholly or in part of agents (9) instructions from clients far away. Thus agents buy meat at Smithfield (10) retail butchers all over England; and (11) A. rather than
B. other than
C. more than
D. less than
A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale at Covent Garden Market and meat is sold wholesale at Smithfield Market. But there are markets for things (1) commodities, in the usual (2) There are (3) estate markets, foreign exchange markets, labour markets, short-term capital markets, and so on; there may be a market for anything that has a price. And there may be no particular place to which dealings are (4) . Buyers and sellers may be (5) over the whole world and instead of actually meeting together in a market-place they may deal with one another (6) telephone, telegram, cable or letter. (7) dealings are (8) to a particular place, the dealers may consist wholly or in part of agents (9) instructions from clients far away. Thus agents buy meat at Smithfield (10) retail butchers all over England; and (11) A. sense
B. meaning
C. case
D. situation
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