market vs tout

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. 

tout

noun
  • Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. 

  • A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. 

  • In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks. 

  • An informer in the Irish Republican Army. 

verb
  • To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes. 

  • To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse. 

  • To look for, try to obtain; used with for. 

  • To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.). 

  • To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote. 

  • To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings. 

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