free market
ECONOMICS
used for describing methods, systems, or actions that are based on the idea that companies, prices, and production should be controlled naturally by the demand for goods and services rather than by government:
a market-oriented approach/policy/solutionWorld leaders called on the country to adopt a market-oriented policy on the currency.
Our mission is to improve democracy around the globe by working through private enterprise to achieve market-oriented reform.
MARKETING
used for describing products that have been made according to the needs and wants of customers:
A seminar on packaging and how to produce market-oriented goods will be held.

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market-oriented
These principal crafts produced market-oriented commodities that were not exclusively directed to local family use.
Even if market-oriented policies enjoy initial popular backing, such support is likely to be eroded over time in the face of unemployment and income gaps.
Successive governments (usually from the technocratic ministries) announced plans to push for market-oriented changes.
Yet the specific effects of market-oriented reforms have been relatively modest and, on the whole, tended to enhance state authority rather than market forces.
However, the authors also stress the limitations of the market-oriented model that all five republics are trying to emulate.
It has often produced alarmist scenarios to support social policy solutions which withdraw the state from social provision in favour of market-oriented responses.
The impact of malapportionment on the capacities of new democratic regimes to sustain painful, market-oriented economic policy reforms also poses intriguing questions.
Rapid increases in real costs, for example, suggest strong demands on existing resources and pressures for increased market-oriented production.
Furthermore, the social depth of market-oriented farming can only be estimated rather than actually measured.
On another front, we have noted a slow emergence of a market-oriented civil service despite retrenchments.
Consequently, market-oriented reforms will lead to relative decline in power and privileges for redistributive cadres.
Neoliberal economists came to dominate the highest economic policy-making positions in both countries and promoted sweeping market-oriented reforms.
In many places, subsistence systems are evolving towards high-productivity (market-oriented) systems + partly as a response to a changing balance between urban and agricultural populations.
Indeed, in many countries big business proved supportive of market-oriented reforms and became a key partner in the governing coalition.
This applies to, for example, the development from subsistence agriculture to commercial, market-oriented farming.
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