"off the market" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

  1. Not for sale at this time. (Implies that being for sale is possible in the future or has been true in the past.) Synonyms: NFS, unavailable
    Sense id: en-off_the_market-en-prep_phrase-V1b21ctO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 96 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 96 4
  2. (figurative) In a committed relationship (romantic, spousal, significant other, etc) and thus not available for dating. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-off_the_market-en-prep_phrase-vIHDqcXh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: off-market (english: not synonymous), priceless, unbuyable
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