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MARKET DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does market day mean? 

MARKET DAY (noun)
  The noun MARKET DAY has 1 sense:

1. a fixed day for holding a public marketplay

  Familiarity information: MARKET DAY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MARKET DAY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A fixed day for holding a public market

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("market day" is a kind of...):

day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)


 Context examples 


It was market day at Redhill, and the road was crowded with carts of produce, droves of bullocks, and farmers’ gigs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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