megamarket

English

Etymology

mega- + market

Noun

megamarket (plural megamarkets)

  1. A market that is very large.
    So much petroleum is traded world wide that it forms a megamarket.
  2. A very large grocery store, a supermarket.
    • 2009 July 9, Farhad Manjoo, “IPhone Apps to Organize Your Life”, in New York Times:
      It has a clever predictive-entry system that seems to know about every single item in the modern American megamarket.
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