noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carved a niche
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He carved a niche for himself as a writer.
fill a gap/hole/niche etc
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I spent most of the summer filling the gaps in my education.
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The company has moved quickly to fill the niche in the overnight travel market.
niche/specialist market
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Or maybe Letterman, circa 1997, occupies a different niche in the cultural zeitgeist.
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But turbulence is also a mode of communication, how different species and niches inform each other.
ecological
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This in turn has led to rapid evolution to fill the vacant or new ecological niches .
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Some thing or things have to happen for a microbe to escape its previously harmless ecological niche and reach critical mass.
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You also need an ecological and behavioral niche .
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By contrast, the appeal of the industrial co-operative remains unchallengeable, its ecological niche exclusive to it.
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It is an organism that has taken advantage of a man-made ecological niche , created in buildings' water systems.
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Fewer plants equate to fewer ecological niches and fewer species of animals to fill them.
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Old ecological niches were destroyed in the process and new ones opened up.
new
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This in turn has led to rapid evolution to fill the vacant or new ecological niches .
particular
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We were trying to find out where his particular niches lay and the constant worry at that time was lack of money.
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In the last decade, audio books have found a particular niche among commuters.
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PageMaker still commands mastery of its own particular niche even though its sales lead seesaws with that of Ventura.
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These people in turn acquire their attitudes and identity from their own particular niche in the environment.
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Some will make it to the market, others just fade away into their particular niche .
small
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Meanwhile Hobor predicts that the speciality chemical businesses will continue to grow through small niche acquisitions as well as internal growth through new products.
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But the manufacturers of meat substitutes say vegetarians are a small niche in their target market.
■ NOUN
market
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There are indications that home computer buyers' newfound price sensitivity may spread to other market niches .
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The second was to create a market niche .
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The brothers saw their market niche as the one-off poster.
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It made a nice market niche for a few small companies.
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They depend on larger companies for a market niche , and often provide low-paid and insecure jobs.
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That, of course, varies widely by industry and market niche .
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Some 60 companies there claim competence and expertise in the technology, each trying to identify its own market niche .
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The business was highly profitable because of a narrow market niche in which there was little competition.
player
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To his credit, he has adapted to being a niche player .
product
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Smaller outfits with regional services or niche products will naturally have no option but to go for a cheaper solution.
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Liu acknowledges that AsiaSurf is still a niche product .
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Cypress now plans to concentrate on static RAMs, programmable logic devices and its high-performance niche product lines.
■ VERB
carve
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On the back of the bicentennial opportunity she had struck fast and hard and carved a unique niche for herself on television.
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Distillers scrambled to develop processing techniques that would allow them to carve out their own niches .
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In carving out a distinctive niche for themselves, a number of options have been open to them.
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In the Bay Area alone, three companies are trying to carve out a niche in the casual clothing market.
create
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Bartley has created its own niche in the industry.
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Internet-based travel services are also creating a niche for themselves by offering last-minute travel bargains.
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The second was to create a market niche .
fill
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Surrounded by the tall, heavy-stemmed vegetation that filled the niche of trees, they felt safe and unobserved.
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It clearly concentrates the information in a commendable format and fills a niche in the market.
find
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Her superb analytical skills will find a less adversarial niche .
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I feel sure the Foreign Office will be able to find some niche for you.
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Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
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Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old.
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But clubs that are poised to succeed will find a niche , experts say.
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The episode spells out very clearly the difficulties in finding an appropriate niche for the duke.
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This freedom enables Eliot to find the proper niche for art, science, poetry and metaphysics as meaningful, liberating endeavors.
identify
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Some 60 companies there claim competence and expertise in the technology, each trying to identify its own market niche .
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Alexander identified his niche and packaged himself to perfection.
occupy
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The majority were arboreal frugivores occupying much the same niche as equivalent-sized monkeys today.
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I therefore assumed that he occupied some lower social niche than mine.
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Ecological theory holds that no two species can occupy exactly the same niche .
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Or maybe Letterman, circa 1997, occupies a different niche in the cultural zeitgeist.
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They have evolved over millions of years to occupy their own niche , under the forest's protection.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Van Meer's magazines are aimed at two growing niche markets: Internet users and senior citizens.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A niche , for the purposes of practice management software, is any combination of a client and a location.
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But the manufacturers of meat substitutes say vegetarians are a small niche in their target market.
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What better niches could there be for Woodhead, who has cast the last figleaf of impartiality to the wind?