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on the market

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Offered for sale.

During a real estate auction: going to be sold at that auction, i.e. the bid has reached the vendor's reserve.

(of a person) single; not in a committed romantic relationship or otherwise unavailable.

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In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. Edward Bernays

The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market. Theodor Adorno

The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market. Max Horkheimer

Spending Freeze? (referring to remarks by John Boehner), the brand named policy of economic fundamental misunderstanding endorsed by more conservatives than any other proven policy failure on the market today. Rachel Maddow

You sell more herrings on the market than sole. French Proverb

It's too late to fatten a cow on the market day. African Proverb

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