A situation in which a party or group has acquired a substantial quantity of the available shares and, as a result, exerts considerable influence on its market price.
The practice of purchasing a security or commodity in volume such that the purchaser has complete supply and demand control of a security. See: Commodities; Security; Volume
In business, cornering the market is an illegal attempt to buy up enough of a particular commodity to allow the price to be manipulated. It is also possible to make even more money by buying futures contracts on the commodity, and selling them at a profit after inflating the price.