The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MARKET
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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What does MARKET mean?
MARKET noun- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
- City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
- A grocery store
- A group of potential customers for one's product.
- A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.
- To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- To sell
- To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.