Bazaar \Ba*zaar"\ Bazar \Ba*zar"\(b[.a]*z[aum]r"), n. [Per.
   b[=a]zar market.]
   1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of
      shops where goods are exposed for sale.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods,
      as at a fair.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly
      for a charitable purpose. --Macaulay.
      [1913 Webster] BC

	

	bazaar
     n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazar]
     2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn: bazar]
     3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
        [syn: fair]

	

	31 Moby Thesaurus words for "bazaar":
   auto show, boat show, closing-out sale, commercial complex,
   distress sale, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, flea market,
   garage sale, going-out-of-business sale, inventory-clearance sale,
   market, market overt, marketplace, mart, open market, plaza,
   rialto, rummage sale, sale, shopping center, shopping mall,
   shopping plaza, show, staple, street market, tax sale, trade fair,
   white elephant sale

	

	bazaar n.,adj. 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 (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-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.