captive market
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They have a captive market and they don't want to share it.
From BBC ● May 5, 2022
But its status as the country’s largest residential mortgage servicer gives it ample opportunity to exploit this captive market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Chinese hospitals are often told to buy locally, giving China’s suppliers a vast and captive market.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2020
But the ultimate captive market is the U.S. criminal justice system, where consumers are captive in both an economic and a physical sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2018
Libraries were a captive market, and journals had improbably installed themselves as the gatekeepers of scientific prestige – meaning that scientists couldn’t simply abandon them if a new method of sharing results came along.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2017
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