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Idiom

spoil market

Meaning

Alternative form of spoil the market.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Do not lower your prices, or you will spoil the market.”

“If you sell your goods too cheaply, you will spoil the market for other local farmers.”

“By flooding the region with discounted inventory, the corporation managed to spoil the market for smaller, independent retailers struggling to compete.”

Examples

simple

“Do not lower your prices, or you will spoil the market.”

contextual

“If you sell your goods too cheaply, you will spoil the market for other local farmers.”

complex

“By flooding the region with discounted inventory, the corporation managed to spoil the market for smaller, independent retailers struggling to compete.”

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