society > trade and finance > [noun] > highly specialized trade or market
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1975 Business Week (Nexis) 27 Jan. 79 Hewlett-Packard Co. says the new DEC product is ‘probably more complex than most customers in this market niche want.’
1995 Wired Jan. 28/1 Are you on the trail of the next unexploited market niche?