Meaning of marketful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A quantity that fills a market.
2. A sufficient number of potentially interested consumers.

Examples

“There are traditions of whole towns set⟳ to make⟳ whole marketfuls of goods after the demand⟳ for such goods had ceased —Paisley, for instance, could have⟳ supplied the United Kingdom with grey shawls, when Yorkshire had clothed it in red shawls.”

“It's no longer a Negro trailing at your skirt; it's a marketful of slaves, all sticking out their tongues.”

“Had considerable properties as well, houses, a marketful of shops, owned a wood or two — two huge tracts of timberland, actually.”

“For most of us, this is a near automatic reflex after a life spent giving our opinions on classes, movies, candidates, and marketsful of merchandise: the first question⟳ seems inborn, "What did you think⟳ of that?"”

“Now we were competing with ox-drawn carts, dark, sweat-shiny men carrying piles of pots or bricks on their heads, scooters conveying whole families, and a marketful of vendors whose wares spilled from the broken pavements on to the streets.”

“Ripplewood creates a presold marketful of prospects ripe for your order⟳ book.”

“First there was Mr. Newmarket, symbol of the new male customers for prophylactics sent to you by doctors as a result⟳ of Schmid's Exclusive Trichomonal Re-infection Control⟳ Program⟳ —the program⟳ that created a whole new marketful of prophylactics users.”

“Out in California's incredibly productive Inland Valley, there's a whole marketful of people with billions to spend⟳.”

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