declining market
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdeclineandmarket
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decline
noun[S or U]
uk/dɪˈklaɪn/us/dɪˈklaɪn/
when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, ...
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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 ofdeclineandmarketfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is a great chance to introduce an atmosphere of cheer into the depressed anddecliningmarketof nationalisation stocks—this sombre picture which one sees.
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There is no virtue in going on producing goods for which there is adecliningmarket, or perhaps no market at all.
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Moreover, the profile of the business is aimed at adecliningmarket—the unemployed and pensioners—rather than commuters.
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Is it sensible to continue giving aid to shipbuilding and ship-repairing yards when they are engaged in what is necessarily adecliningmarket?
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It has been faced all the time with adecliningmarket.
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Workers producing military goods will increasingly be competing ferociously for adecliningmarket.
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There may be some industries which will face adecliningmarket, in view of the growth of secondary manufacture in the less-developed areas.
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There is adecliningmarketfor almost every type of product.
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On that basis, it has managed to expand what was previously adecliningmarketand to build up its organisation.
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Although it has achieved a somewhat larger share of thedecliningmarketfor trucks, nevertheless that share still shows considerable losses.
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The bus manufacturing industry is striving to survive in adecliningmarketand, again, this provides less opportunity for development of new designs and projects.
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If these places and the small towns decline, then we will have adecliningmarketfor farming and a declining farming community.
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Indeed, how will the freight side survive at all in an alreadydecliningmarket?
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These are familiar signs of adecliningmarketwhere the lag spreads all the way through.
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They show adecliningmarketshare in practically every sector and that once-thriving sectors, like motorcycles, office equipment and cutlery, have practically disappeared.
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It is already adecliningmarket, with a very small profit margin.
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In the light of adecliningmarketand the difficulties involved, this aspect should be looked into.
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Small employers have to keep a close watch on the margins if they are to survive, especially in today'sdecliningmarket.
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First, the kind of bulk freight for which rail is most suited is itself adecliningmarket.
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He faced exactly the same problem that we have today—adecliningmarket.
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