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long tail

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of long tail1

C21: from the appearance of typical sales patterns on a graph
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He says: "It was about 4 to 5ft long in body, had a long tail and muscular rolling shoulders as it slowly slinked away."

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Chloe Tryon was their last recognised batter and her departure at the end of the 39th over exposed South Africa's long tail, but a streaky ninth-wicket stand of 32 between Nonkululeko Mlaba and Mieke de Ridder pushed them to a respectable, if below-par, total.

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“It boasts probably the best re-watchability rates of anything in the market. that represents is an incredibly long tail of engagement for whatever that one project cost.”

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“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas, vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank.

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white voters, conservative and liberal alike, seem to forget is the long tail of the model-minority myth, one that many in the South Asian diaspora have aligned themselves with for decades.

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