long tail

noun

commerce the segment of a market representing the large number of products that sell in small quantities, considered by some to be of greater financial value than the few products that sell in very large quantities

Word Origin for long tail

C21: from the appearance of typical sales patterns on a graph

Words nearby long tail

long shot, long shot, a, long splice, long suit, long sweetening, long tail, long thoracic nerve, long time no see, long tin, long tom, long ton

Example sentences from the Web for long tail

Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the degree of a squire.

The Merry Wives of Windsor |William Shakespeare
In less than half an hour these appeared, and we succeeded in killing a second long-tail—a doe—and dragged her also into the boat.

The Hunters' Feast |Mayne Reid
It came so close to Valentine that if he had had on a long-tail coat, I believe it would have been tangled in the whirlwind.

Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country |Joel Chandler Harris
The Latin-grammar master had a spare night-cap lent him, and a long-tail coat, which he wore hind side before.

Holiday Romance |Charles Dickens

Nobody else knows where half of these new places are, with long-tail names.

Ned, the son of Webb |William O. Stoddard

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long tail

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Word Origin for long tail

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Example sentences from the Web for long tail