potential entrant
noun[C]
COMMERCEukusacompanythat mightenteraparticularindustry:
Potentialentrantsmustovercomethebarrierofhugeadvertisingexpenditurebyexistingfirms.
Examplesofpotential entrant
potential entrant
For example, consider a dynamic game in which the players are an incumbent firm in an industry and apotentialentrantto that industry.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Therefore, the incumbent can use these as a signal to anypotentialentrant.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Given such uncertainty, everypotentialentrantis perceived as having as good a chance of winning as any other,26 and voters can only vote sincerely.
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This advertises to other potential entrants that they will encounter the same aggressive response if they enter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Once the incumbent acquiesces to an entrant, it signals to other potential entrants that it is weak and encourages other entrants.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The rents could also motivate potential entrants to invest in high levels of training in order to gain admittance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By developing a large variety of products, the incumbent firm is able to occupy gaps in the market that potential entrants may have exploited, thus reducing the threat of competition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Known to one another rather than numerous, independent and isolated, actors and potential entrants recognize and accommodate.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The cost of studying, however, is not necessarily the main reason that potential entrants decide against going to university, but just one of many reasons.
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It was used only for occasions when there were "big" issues, such as a decreasing number of potential entrants, that required special attention.
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- be in the land of nod
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- be in the land of the living
- be-in-the-land-of-the-living
- be in the loop/be out of the loop
- be-in-the-loop-be-out-of-the-loop
- be-in-the-middle-of
- be in the middle of something
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- be in the money
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- be-in-the-mood-for-to-do
- be-in-the-process-of
- be in the process of doing something
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- be in the pudding club
- be-in-the-pudding-club