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Also known as market space

relative market adoption

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market space, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary

market space, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

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There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun market space . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. The earliest known use of the noun market space is in the 1800s. OED's earliest evidence for market space is from 1800, in New Baltimore Directory & Annual Register 1800–1 .

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Airlines competing for market share of Europe-Japan revenue flight market: Swiss and SAS

Market share is the percentage of the total revenue or sales in a market that a company's business makes up. For example, if there are 50,000 units sold per year in a given industry, a company whose sales were 5,000 of those units would have a 10 percent share in that market.

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