captive market
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They said they view the situation as an example of captive market exploitation and economic coercion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
They have a captive market and they don't want to share it.
From BBC ● May 5, 2022
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
Some of his businesses found a particularly captive market in his flock, selling to his followers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2014
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