0 a situation in which companies can trade freely without limits, and prices are changed according to the number of goods and how many people are buying them:
1 a trading situation in which anyone can be involved and prices are not controlled:
New apartments will be built and sold on the open market to those who can afford them.
2 an economic system where there are no rules about how much of something people can buy and sell:
3 a situation in which a country's central bank buys and sells in a financial market to increase or reduce the money supply (= the amount of money in an economy):
When a central bank conducts open market operations, conditions in the financial sector could be affected.
The open market was a case in point.
Perhaps firms could reduce their reliance on bank loans by turning increasingly to the open market for credit through the flotation of marketable bonds.
In addition, they can be jammed, overloaded, or spoofed, often by cheap devices freely available on the open market.
The fifth fund, however, is not representative of investment opportunities available on the open market.
One white respondent claimed that the government pumps in money in order to compensate for the negative effects of the open market.
Open market operations affect, then, the distribution of money and consumption expenditures across households.
The open market remained important, not despite the proliferation of network relationships, but because of it.
In the open market, they can sell their grain either to private traders or the government.
