The difference between Grocery and Market
When used as nouns, grocery means retail foodstuffs and other household supplies, whereas market means city square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
When used as verbs, grocery means to go grocery shopping, whereas market means to make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
check bellow for the other definitions of Grocery and Market
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Grocery as a noun (usually [[groceries]]):
retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
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Grocery as a noun:
A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
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Grocery as a verb (intransitive):
To go grocery shopping.
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Grocery as a verb (transitive):
To furnish with groceries.
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Market as a noun:
City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
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Market as a noun:
An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site.
Examples:
"The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh."
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Market as a noun:
Flea market
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Market as a noun:
A group of potential customers for one's product.
Examples:
"We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner."
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Market as a noun:
A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
Examples:
"Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta."
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Market as a noun:
A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
Examples:
"The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets."
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Market as a noun:
The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
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Market as a noun (obsolete):
The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
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Market as a verb (transitive):
To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
Examples:
"We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter''."
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Market as a verb (transitive):
To sell
Examples:
"We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!"
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Market as a verb (intransitive):
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.