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captive market

noun

  1. a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"The tactic kills two birds with one stone. It deprives America's farm belt of a once鈥慶aptive market and burnishes China's food security credentials," says Marina Yue Zhang, associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney's Australia-China Relations Institute.

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The app stores have a captive market.

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The drug trade, the show recognized, was capitalism in its most raw, potent, uncut form, with a killer product, a captive market and a disposable work force.

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