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

The core Dick’s stores are working, taking market share and introducing new concepts. — Stephanie Link, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2026

Anthropic, locked in a fierce battle for market share with rival OpenAI, was last valued at $965 billion in a private funding round. — Reuters, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2026

Labels like Asics, New Balance, Saucony and Salomon have taken a chunk of Nike’s market share, particularly in the lifestyle sector. — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026

More classrooms using Chromebooks was lucrative for Google, too, and as of 2025, education represented 60% of Chromebook’s global market share, which totals $14 billion. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026

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