market share

noun

: the percentage of the market for a product or service that a company supplies

Examples of market share in a Sentence

The company has gained market share in the past year.

companies working to increase their market shares

Recent Examples on the Web

As market share declined in the Southeast during the pandemic, Advanta struggled to hire and retain workers. —Stuart Dyos, The Tennessean, 7 Aug. 2025

OpenAI's enterprise market share declined from 50% to 34%, while Anthropic doubled from 12% to 24%. —Dhruv Roongta, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025

In a recent report, global equity research and brokerage firm Bernstein forecast that Nvidia’s AI chip market share in China would drop to 54% in 2025, from 66% the year prior. —Dylan Butts, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025

What’s more, the market share for sales of zero-emission vehicles dropped to 21.6% from April through June, down from 23% in the first quarter and 25.1% in the fourth quarter of 2024. —Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for market share

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Legal Definition

market share

noun

: the percentage of the market for a product or service that a company supplies