corner the market

1. 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]

Example Sentences

Leave it to designer Kiko Kostadinov to corner the market on bizarro motor racing clothing.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon

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

From Seattle Times

Related Words

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• occupy 
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