market vs public

market

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

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

  • A grocery store 

  • 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. 

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

  • To sell. 

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

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

public

noun
  • A particular group or demographic to be targeted. 

  • The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group. 

adj
  • Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment. 

  • Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the state on behalf of the community. 

  • Traded publicly via a stock market. 

  • Open to all members of a community; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes. 

  • Pertaining to the people as a whole (as opposed to a private group); concerning the whole country, community etc. 

  • Accessible to the program in general, not only to the class or any subclasses. 

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