Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who corners or buys up all the available supply of a commodity for the purpose of inflating prices.

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Examples

  • And if so are not the police and the Palmers entitled to their day in the moral court no less than the tariff-baron and market-cornerer, the herder and driver of wage slaves, the retail artists in cold storage filth, short weight and shoddy goods?

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II 1915

  • Caught with promises to deliver thousands upon thousands of shares of Great Lakes, when Great Lakes could be had only of the mysterious cornerer, and at whatever price he might choose to ask!

    The Cost 1904

  • "My name is Pinkney Dawson," said the cornerer of the cockleburr market.

    Cabbages and Kings 1904

  • Caught with promises to deliver thousands upon thousands of shares of Great Lakes, when Great Lakes could be had only of the mysterious cornerer, and at whatever price he might choose to ask!

    The Cost David Graham Phillips 1889

  • And if so are not the police and the Palmers entitled to their day in the moral court no less than the tariff-baron and market-cornerer, the herder and driver of wage slaves, the retail artists in cold storage filth, short weight and shoddy goods?

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

  • "My name is Pinkney Dawson," said the cornerer of the cockleburr market.

    Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886

  • And just because the RR Sport weighs in at nearly three tons doesn't mean that Land Rover has built a sloppy cornerer.

    Autoblog Chris Shunk 2010

  • And just because the RR Sport weighs in at nearly three tons doesn't mean that Land Rover has built a sloppy cornerer.

    Autoblog Chris Shunk 2010

  • For the cornerer, there is also the risk that rules will change when powerful people get in trouble.

    Rocky Mount Telegram - Business 2008

  • The _Chicago Herald_ says, "No one is in love with a cornerer who corners.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 1856

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