bazaar

also n.

1. A market consisting of a street lined with shops and stalls, especially one in the Middle East.
2. A shop or a part of a store in which miscellaneous articles are sold.
3. A fair or sale at which miscellaneous articles are sold, often for charitable purposes.

[Italian bazarro and Urdu bāzār, both from Persian.]

In 1997, after meditating on the success of Linux for three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The main argument of the paper was that Brooks's Law is not the whole story; given the right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see also cathedral), and the style of development typical in the Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its characteristics include releasing code early and often, and actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers. After 1998, the evident success of this way of doing things became one of the strongest arguments for open source.

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A marketplace where goods are exposed for sale; esp. in the East, consisting either of small shops or stalls in a narrow street or series of streets, or of a certain section of town under one roof and divided into narrow passageways.

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IN BRIEF: n. - A sale of miscellany; A shop where a variety of goods are sold; A street of small shops (especially in Orient).

Tutor's tip: "Bazaar" and "bazar" mean the same thing (oriental market), while "bizarre" means something unconventional or strange.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - basar, orientalsk marked

Nederlands (Dutch)
bazaar

Français (French)
n. - bazar, vente de charité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kaufhaus, Basar

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ανατολίτικο) παζάρι, αγορά, φιλανθρωπική αγορά, κατάστημα ή τμήμα νεωτερισμών

Italiano (Italian)
bazar

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bazar (m)

Русский (Russian)
базар, благотворительный базар

Español (Spanish)
n. - bazar, feria

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - basar

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
集市, 杂货店, 市场

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 集市, 雜貨店, 市場

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 시장, 바자, 특매장

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 商店街, バザール, 百貨店, 慈善市

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سوق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שוק, יריד, בזאר‬

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bazaar	harpers bazaar