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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
Ticketmaster processes around 500 million tickets around the world each year and reportedly controls more than 80% of the market share for major concerts, according to a report by marketing software developer HubSpot.
—Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
In the tri-county area last year, Hyde Park rang up $86.7 million in sales and took 1.41 percent of the market share, according to the Shelby Report, a grocery trade publication.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
The biggest fiction premiere on free-to-air Spanish television in the past two years, racking up a 14.1% market share and 2.0 million viewers on its linear Feb. 25 bow, the daily series opens with a tense chase through lush forests.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
But in recent years, SAIC and its foreign partners have seen steep drops in sales as BYD and Tesla have surged far ahead in the race to capture EV market share.
—Zhang Yan, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2024
To maintain market share, Tesla has been reducing prices for both its Model Y and Model 3 and offering competitive leases that often include a $7,500 incentive spread across the term of the lease.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
But the agency said in a December report that the competition could put pressure on automakers' short-term market share and profitability.
—Ken Moritsugu, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
Then, a legal challenge filed with the FDA in 2002 was left unresolved for nearly 14 years (throughout the entirety of the Bush administration) in order to thwart judicial review while the pill expanded its market share, creating facts on the ground.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 Mar. 2024
For the first time last year, Apple was China’s largest smartphone vendor, with market share of 17.3%.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1918, in the meaning defined above
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“Market share.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20share. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
Legal Definition
market share
noun
: the percentage of the market for a product or service that a company supplies
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