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  • adjective without a market

Etymologies

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market +‎ -less

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Examples

  • A marketless society must have planning - people only have ever debated whether it could be de-centralized or must be centralized, the latter is the only way it has worked at all.

    Communist Economic Policy: Stalinism or the Red Army?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Marx wanted to do away with the market entirely, and did not consider a system that retained a market as an end in itself - only a means toward purer communism which would be marketless.

    Communist Economic Policy: Stalinism or the Red Army?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Whether he thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man!

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Whether he thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man!

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Whether he thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man!

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Whether he thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man!

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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