captive market

noun

1. a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly

Example Sentences

The app stores have a captive market.

From Slate

“When they decide to go out, they have cars and they can go anywhere. They’re not a captive market.”

From Washington Post

The drug trade, the show recognized, was capitalism in its most raw, potent, uncut form, with a killer product, a captive market and a disposable work force.

From New York Times

They have a captive market and they don't want to share it.

From BBC

They created a captive market of battery customers.

From New York Times