Meanings
adjectivenonmarket (not comparable)
alternative non-market
- not comparableNot market-based; often specifically lacking the openness of a free market.
nonmarket forces
1 more example
In fact, it is arguably the nonmarket orientation (monopoly characteristics) of professional baseball that has sent players’ earnings, team owners’ profits and companies’ market valuations (and dividends) into the stratosphere.
2007 June 24, “Letters”, in New York Times
nounnonmarket (plural nonmarkets)
plural nonmarkets · alternative non-market
- That which is not a market.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Englishmarket
- Englishnonmarket
Translations
Finnish muu kuin markkina-
- muu kuin markkina-Translations
Polish pozarynkowy
- pozarynkowyTranslations
Cite this entry
APA
nonmarket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonmarket
MLA
“nonmarket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonmarket. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonmarket,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonmarket.
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