corner the market on (something)

corner the market on (something)

To sell or produce something so successfully as to overshadow all others in the same field. That company is so popular right now that they've really cornered the market on video games. It's very hard for other companies to compete when that massive company has cornered the market on online retail. Well, we knew our app wouldn't corner the market on streaming content overnight, but just give us time.

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corner the market on something

 and corner the something market

Fig. to develop or obtain a monopoly of something. The company sought to corner the market on frozen yogurt. Standard Oil had the oil market cornered at the end of the nineteenth century.

See also: corner, market, on

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