Usually means: Customers bound to one provider.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. captive market: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Captive Market (short story), Captive market: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. captive market: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. captive market, Captive market: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Captive Market: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Captive market)

noun:  A captive market is a market where the potential consumers face a severely limited number of competitive suppliers; their only choices are to purchase what is available or to make no purchase at all.


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