shrinking market

collocation in English

meaningsofshrinkandmarket

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shrink
noun[C]
uk
/ʃrɪŋk/us
/ʃrɪŋk/
a ...
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market
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmɑː.kɪt/us
/ˈmɑːr.kɪt/
the people who might want to buy something, or a part of the world where something ...
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(Definition ofshrinkandmarketfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Paraffin therefore commanded ashrinkingmarketfor reasons related to factors other than profit.
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However, we do that only in order to obtain a larger share of ashrinkingmarket.
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That means that the import quota system to which we have changed now gives a larger share of thatshrinkingmarketto jute imports.
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A business built on serving people who do not use bank accounts will clearly be serving ashrinkingmarket.
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In the past, other countries paid more attention to inflation and have now got themselves into a better position to compete in ashrinkingmarket.
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As consumer goods already face ashrinkingmarket, the burden, as he said, will fall, on the engineering and metal using industries.
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Facing up to the challenge of cheap imports and ashrinkingmarkethas not been easy.
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Some manufacturers went on making hairpins, fighting every day for a bigger share in a veryshrinkingmarket, and all eventually went broke.
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What it cannot do anything about is theshrinkingmarketand its inability to trade outside publicly funded organisations.
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In a trade with a graduallyshrinkingmarketregulation is essential.
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This adds up to ashrinkingmarketand a shrinking coal industry, with a public no longer sentimentally disposed to take the miners' part, as they are in this crisis.
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It is in thatshrinkingmarketthat these retailers are jealous and fearsome of any increase in the numbers of those who can sell cigarettes and tobacco.
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Public transport is competing in ashrinkingmarket.
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It is ashrinkingmarket.
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Amelio was faced with a company plagued with over-capacity andshrinkingmarketshare.
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The orchestra disbanded in the mid-1940s, due in part to theshrinkingmarketfor big band sound.
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However, the fact that the younger population represented ashrinkingmarketand older population a growing one was largely ignored by the design profession.
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Strong competition in ashrinkingmarkethas made the paper opt for a broader appeal, however, as signified by the conversion from broadsheet to compact format in 2005.
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The company had orders for 300 aircraft but decided that the type would need costly development in ashrinkingmarketand only the prototype was completed.
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Faced with shrinking markets and increased commoditization of their products, these firms saw service provision as a new path towards profits and growth.
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