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corner a market
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Definition
When a company captures a majority share of a market space. When investors own enough of an asset to allow price manipulation.
Context : Business, Technology Category: Idiom Semantic: capture, dominance, manipulate
Usage of “corner a market”
The pharmaceutical company has cornered the market for all skin disorder medications. (majority market share)
Inside information allowed the broker to corner the frozen orange juice market. (manipulate)
With the new agreement, our company was closer to cornering the microchip market than ever before.
