market vs strike a bargain

market

verb
  • To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. 

  • To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them. 

  • To sell. 

  • To shop in a market; to attend a market. 

noun
  • A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic. 

  • A grocery store 

  • A group of potential customers for one's product. 

  • A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects. 

  • City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise. 

  • A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists. 

  • The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities. 

strike a bargain

verb
  • To enter into a bargain; to agree upon the conditions of a sale or other transaction. 

How often have the words market and strike a bargain occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )