How to say "marketplace" in Japanese

• 市場いちばJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounRead いちば, this covers the marketplace as a concrete place: a town or street market where vendors sell goods. Choose it when you mean the physical venue where people go to shop.
  誰だれかが、例たとえば、羊ひつじとか馬うまを市場いちばに出でているもので等ひとしい価値かちがあると考かんがえるものと交換こうかんすることが出来できたのである。↗

  Somebody could exchange a sheep or a horse, for example, for anything in the marketplace that they considered to be of equal value.
• 市場しじょうCommon
  nounRead しじょう, this covers the marketplace in the abstract, economic sense: financial, stock, or domestic markets — trade as an arena, not a place you shop in.
  あと数すう社しゃの企業きぎょうが同国どうこくの利益りえきの高たかいペットフード市場しじょうに参入さんにゅうをねらっている。↗

  Several more companies are moving to enter the lucrative pet food market of the country.

Both are written 市場: use the reading いちば for a physical town or street market where goods are sold, and しじょう for the economic marketplace — financial, stock, or domestic markets.

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• 市場いちば(town) market
• 市場しじょうmarket (financial, stock, domestic, etc.)
• マーケットプレイスmarketplace