CORNER THE MARKET Definition & Meaning

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Buy all or most of a commodity or stock so that its price goes up. For example, In a famous maneuver the Hunt brothers cornered the market in silver . This idiom uses corner in the sense of “drive would-be buyers into a corner.” [Early 1800s]

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I worry that Pornchai has alterior motives when he rushed to have her stay and open a spa in Thailand, but I think the Russians will corner the market on the grift.

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What if, Friedman and fellow executives wondered, the Dodgers could corner the market on top Japanese talent?

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In the absence of a total streaming monopoly, the execs surely knew that they could corner the market on holiday movies with their seemingly endless resources.

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They will corner the market on opening-round home games.

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Jackson’s movies ushered in a new era of mining fantasy properties, with Amazon spending a fortune to corner the market on all things Tolkien.

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