- captive audience
- An audience that is unlikely to be able to escape being exposed to an advertising message in toto. Examples include cinema audiences and conference audiences.
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captive audience
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captive audience — UK US noun [countable] [singular captive audience plural captive audiences] a group of people who must listen to what someone is saying because they cannot leave Thesaurus: audienceshyponym general … Useful english dictionary
captive audience — noun count a group of people who must listen to what someone is saying because they cannot leave … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
captive audience — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms captive audience : singular captive audience plural captive audiences a group of people who must listen to what someone is saying because they cannot leave … English dictionary
captive audience — /ˌkæptɪv ɔ:diəns/ noun the people who cannot avoid being exposed to an advertisement ● Advertisers like to have their posters in underground stations where there is a large captive audience … Marketing dictionary in english
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captive audience — Any group subject to a speaker or to a performance and which is not free to depart without adverse consequences … Black's law dictionary
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Captive market — Captive markets are markets where the potential consumers face a severely limited amount of competitive suppliers; their only choices are to purchase what is available or to make no purchase at all. Captive markets result in higher prices and… … Wikipedia
