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corner the market
To monopolize a resource or commodity, as with the intent of driving up prices

Why, there ain't going to be any wheat left in Chicago by May! If I get in now and buy a long line of cash wheat, where are all these fellows who've sold short going to get it to deliver to me? . . . Jadwin sprang forward, gripping the broker by the shoulder. Sam, he shouted, . . . we can corner the market!.

corner the market
To have exclusive possession; to possess something to a high or excessive degree

It will not do to say that the Irish have a monopoly on stupidity, yet there have been times when I thought they nearly cornered the market.

corner the market
(deyim) Become so successful at selling or making a particular product that almost no one else sells or makes it
corner the market
have a monopoly on a certain product; gain control over
to corner the market in sth
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