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corner the market

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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

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

Buy all or most of a commodity or stock so that its price goes up. For example, In a famous maneuver the Hunt brothers cornered the market in silver. This idiom uses corner in the sense of "drive would-be buyers into a corner." [Early 1800s]

See also: corner, market