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Corner \Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cornered} (-n?rd); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Cornering}.]
1. To drive into a corner.
2. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless
embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
3. To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be
able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the
shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
- Maybe she's celebrating cornering the Bournemouth market in cut-price John and Norma Major jigsaw puzzles, which have sold out - after they were reduced from Pounds 2 to Pounds 1.
- From a business standpoint, it seemed brilliant, cornering a captive audience of young, impressionable consumers and generating potential advertising revenue of $90 million a year.
- Serving as catalysts in many of these deals are shadowy stock-market speculators called "kaishime," or "cornering" groups.
- By cornering the market for the May auction, Salomon was able to control the secondary market for the securities, lending them in order to make money from the financing and charging premium rates.
- Electronic sensors detect when the car is cornering and stiffen the suspension on the outside of the curve, minimising body roll.
- On the Republican side, Vice President George Bush swept most of Colorado's 36 GOP delegates to the Republican National Convention, cornering over 70 percent of the vote in straw polls taken at caucuses Monday night.