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market segment

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noun

  1. a part of a market identifiable as having particular customers with specific buying characteristics

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But what most miss is that America’s aluminum strategy can’t be built around the interests of any one market segment or with a single policy solution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

This hub quickly emerged as one of Robinhood’s fastest-growing product lines by revenue, with the company writing in its third-quarter earnings release that the predictions market segment was “growing rapidly.”

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

AMC was absorbed into Chrysler in 1987; the establishment of SUVs as an emergent and lucrative market segment is its legacy.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2023

McDonald's has opened its first iteration of CosMc's, a retro-style restaurant idea that will offer coffee and other specialty drinks, which would operate in the same market segment as Starbucks.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

"By the end of this decade, we want to be ready to completely transition to electric cars in our market segment, wherever the market conditions allow it," he said.

From Reuters ● Feb. 19, 2023

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