moat
noun
a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, such as a town or a castle.
moats
-
pluralof moat.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The transformation is threatening the economic moats of advanced-manufacturing economies such as the European Union, Japan and South Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“This de-rating has gone too far with regards to the AI concerns and we think Wolters’s competitive moats remain robust,” they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Arya expects that Nvidia’s earnings report in August will show investors that the company still has “its moats in products, pricing and supply chain,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Wall Street demands the deployment of raised capital to build structural moats, giving semiconductor and custom silicon suppliers the most transparent, legally insulated 12-month demand backlogs the industry has ever seen,” he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
