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captive market

noun

  1. a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
“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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The app stores have a captive market.

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“When they decide to go out, they have cars and they can go anywhere. They’re not a captive market.â€

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The drug trade, the show recognized, was capitalism in its most raw, potent, uncut form, with a killer product, a captive market and a disposable work force.

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They have a captive market and they don't want to share it.

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