A business web that handles a complex exchange between buyers and sellers Prices are "discovered" through real-time, on-the-spot negotiations, through one-to-one haggling and multiparty auctions and exchanges 'Agora' was the name for a marketplace in ancient Greece The firm provides a "virtual" place for commerce to take place
The public open space that formed the heart of ancient Greek cities and it's the origin of most western conceptions of public, or civic, space as center of for social interaction for ceremony and democratic life on a pedestrian scale
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In ancient Greek cities, an open space serving as an assembly area and backdrop for commercial, civic, social, and religious activities. Use of the agora varied in different periods. Located in the middle of the city or near the harbor, it was often enclosed by public buildings, colonnades containing shops, and stoas for protection from sun and bad weather. The highest honor for a citizen was to be granted a tomb in the agora
An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city
{i} (in ancient Greece) political assembly; marketplace or public square used for public assemblies
a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece the marketplace in ancient Greece 100 agorot equal 1 shekel