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

Example Sentences

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market share

That all suggests Alphabet is positioned to gain cloud market share as long as AI-driven demand doesn’t wane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

She notes that the two companies combined will likely have a 27% market share for the wide-release theatrical distribution market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

CEO Mary Barra wrote in a shareholder letter that “customer demand in North America remains strong,” even as deliveries and market share continued to decline, and as sales incentives remained below the industry average.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Super Micro’s gross margins have been a key focus for investors in recent quarters, as the company has been making an expensive AI pivot and prioritizing capturing market share over profitability.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

If Burger King and McDonald’s launch a price war to gain market share, they partly make up in volume what they lose in price.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt