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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a market.

Etymologies

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market +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Donor countries would choose which programs to support, creating a marketlike interaction between donors and applicants.

    The Free Market For Hope 2007

  • The church and the old City Hall building have been replaced by early nineteenth-century substitutes, and every other building is a twentieth-century temple of finance, casting dark slabs of shade, but the streets are the same—narrow, winding paths, except for Broad Street, a wide marketlike plaza.

    Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

  • The church and the old City Hall building have been replaced by early nineteenth-century substitutes, and every other building is a twentieth-century temple of finance, casting dark slabs of shade, but the streets are the same—narrow, winding paths, except for Broad Street, a wide marketlike plaza.

    Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

  • Privatization, together with the introduction of competition and marketlike arrangements in the public sector, once rejected in many countries as intolerable intrusions of alien principles, are now taken seriously.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Where marketlike conditions could not be established, an incentive structure was to be constructed to simulate markets.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Where marketlike conditions could not be established, an incentive structure was to be constructed to simulate markets.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Privatization, together with the introduction of competition and marketlike arrangements in the public sector, once rejected in many countries as intolerable intrusions of alien principles, are now taken seriously.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Privatization, together with the introduction of competition and marketlike arrangements in the public sector, once rejected in many countries as intolerable intrusions of alien principles, are now taken seriously.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Where marketlike conditions could not be established, an incentive structure was to be constructed to simulate markets.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Christmas Village is back, or will be sometime Thursday after its German operator agreed to restore the full name to the farmers-marketlike venue.

    Phillies Zone 2010

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