metamarket noun5 •A group of businesses that offer products that are related from a consumer's perspective but which have no institutional connections.Now, when a construction firm, dealer, housing finance firm, interior designer, furnishers, media, and internet site come together, a metamarket is created. — 2005 •A market that trades in the medium of exchange of a lower-level market, such as money, derivatives, or credit.Meanwhile as the metamarket booms, the few remaining souls who did not get in on the ground floor, have no choice but to pursue eschatology. — 1982 •The social and political infrastructure within which a market functions.A market cannot operate at its full capacity unless it has a metamarket that reduces its costs, internalizes externalities, stabilizes contractual relations, and guarantees property rights. — 2004 •A market that trades in access to audiences or consumers.These audiences have a price: they constitute metamarkets. The market -- for toothpaste, mobile phones, and optional extras on cars -- passes through the metamarket of audiences. — 2009 •The process of promoting the exchange or adoption of things other than goods or services that are offered for sale.All are contained in a kind of metamarket that peddles, basically, immortality. This metamarket is what we call consumerism. — 1988 formsmetamarkets
