to corner

Examples

• All

• Apparently you guys in this town are trying to corner the market.

  Claw (2017)

• Well, we could corner the paperweight market.

  Green Fire (1954)

• What are you trying to do, corner the market?

  I Love Melvin (1953)

• But the Chinese are not doing it to corner world markets.

  Academic text (2010)

• We cannot trust the free market to 'corner the market' for food or water.

  Blog text (14)

• Still, chain stores did not completely corner the market on African American business.

  Academic text (1999)

• Film and television have cornered the market of coming-of-age stories.

  Girl in Progress (2012)

• I want to show everyone that mean girls don't have the market cornered on all things cool.

  Homekilling Queen (2019)

• I could have been a billionaire then, by cornering the market in NWP shipping.

  Blog text (9)

• The company plans to corner the market on electric vehicles by introducing innovative models.

Synonyms

C

to corner the market

vsto corner

9 7.2

To control most of the supply of a product so you can set its price and keep competitors out

is broader, meaning exclusive control without stressing price fixing

Idioms

A

around the corner

260 1.9

Very near in place or happening soon

T

to turn the corner

14 4.2

To begin to get better after a difficult time

P

to paint (oneself) into a corner

• Informal

8 7.4

Put yourself in a difficult situation with no easy way out

I

in someone's corner

• Informal

1 4.6

Support someone during difficult times

S

stuck in a corner

• Informal

1 7.5

In a difficult situation with no clear way out

F

to fight one's corner

• UK

7.0

Defend your ideas or what you want when others disagree

Phrasal Verbs

C

to corner the market

9 7.2

To control most of the supply of a product so you can set its price and keep competitors out

B

to box into a corner

• Informal

1 7.8

To leave someone with few or no good choices

Compounds

S

street corner

63 1.0

The place where two streets meet

C

corner pocket

5 3.7

A pocket at a corner of a pool table where balls fall

C

corner kick

3 2.4

A kick in football taken from the corner after a defender last touched the ball for the attacking team

C

catty-corner

• US

1 7.9

At an angle across the corner of a street or room

B

blind corner

1 3.3

A corner on a road where drivers cannot see around because something blocks the view

C

chimney corner

• Archaic

1 6.3

A corner of a room next to a fireplace where people sit to feel warm

C

corner cabinet

1 3.1

A cabinet made to fit into a room corner for storing or showing things

C

corner post

1 4.6

A vertical post at the corner of a building that supports the walls

A

amen corner

1 9.9

A place in a church where people sit and loudly say amen during a service

K

kitty-corner

• US

1 7.9

Diagonally across the street from another place

S

shadowy corner

1 3.7

A dim part of a room or place where people cannot see well

C

cobwebby corner

7.8

A corner covered in cobwebs that looks unused

C

corner man

• Archaic

9.9

A man in old minstrel shows who sits at one end of performers and makes jokes with the main speaker

H

hole-and-corner

• Archaic

9.3

A secret way of doing things to hide small dishonest acts

H

hole-in-corner

• Archaic

9.9

Hidden and small, often secret and unimportant

How Exclusive

to monopolize

• US

22 6.7

to corner

21 7.7

Surface Forms

Etymology