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corner the market

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corner the market
to become so successful at selling or making a particular product that almost no one else sells or makes it They've more or less cornered the fast-food market - they're in every big city in the country.
See also: corner, market

corner the market also have a corner on the market
to control the supply or sale of a particular product The company tried to corner the market on several types of computer software.
See also: corner, market


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From selling lunches and lending money to his fellow miners, he progressed to corner the market on Black Death in Birmingham with his burial society, funeral home, insurance company and cemetery.
When Lienzo is introduced to coffee and enticed into trying to corner the market, the multiple plots thicken, divide, and nearly ruin him for good.
Just Ready Pac, the California company that's trying to corner the market in no-fuss vegetables.
 
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