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Definition of Cornering
1. corner [v] - See also: corner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornering
Literary usage of Cornering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant (1913)
"Boxing is followed by cornering, performed by two workers, ... The object of
cornering is to provide a suitable face for the commencement of the subsequent ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"cornering boxes, and he worked at that until Friday of that week, and told me
that he had left his family, and would go and see how they were, ..."
3. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"cornering THE MARKET'- In the middle of April the price of wheat rose, after some
weeks of spectacular advances, to war and famine figures. ..."
4. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"cornering THE MARKET1 In the middle of April the price of wheat rose, after some
weeks of spectacular advances, to war and famine figures. ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"... but plaintiff claimed that the price fixed was fictitiously created by the
buyer and others by cornering the wheat market, and instituted suits to ..."
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