captive market

基本解釋

The cost of these captive markets is ruinous.
這些壟斷市場的代價極高。
Apart from some sporting rivalry between the two broadcasters, there has been little reason for members to intrude on each other’s captive markets.
除了兩家廣播公司之間的一些體育欄目的競爭之外，公司之間沒有任何理由去侵犯彼此的壟斷市場。
In truly captive markets, quantity delivered might be more important than relevance or quality.
在真正的壟斷市場中，交付的數(shù)量也許要比產(chǎn)品是否合適或質(zhì)量更重要。

As for why the chains want to buy into such trouble spots, they have their attractions--like captive markets.
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Then they will fight Russian efforts to make their markets captive.
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The discipline of the free market would never support the types of investments occasionally contemplated in regulated markets with captive ratepayers.
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