market share

American  

noun

Economics.

• market shares
  plural

1. the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.

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market share British  

noun

1. the percentage of a total market, in terms of either value or volume, accounted for by the sales of a specific brand

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• market shares
  plural

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market share

Analysts say rising production costs have become increasingly difficult to absorb as Samsung seeks to limit price increases to maintain shipment volumes and market share.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

That is, Cole said, they pay “too much attention to their competitors and innovation coming from people who are trying to capture market share and not enough to real change coming from the outside.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

GM has slipped from 17.4 percent market share in 2025 to 16.7 percent in the first nine months of this year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Citadel Securities says it executes approximately 35% of all U.S.-listed retail trading volume, making it the largest by market share.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Their client, Christian Brothers, wanted to know why, after years of being the dominant brand in the category, it was losing market share to E & J. Their brandy wasn’t more expensive.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell