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Meaning of niche in English

niche
noun [ C ]
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/niːʃ/ us
/nɪtʃ/

niche noun [C] (POSITION)

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a job or position that is very suitable for someone, especially one that they like:
He has carved/made a niche for himself as a financial advisor.
an area or position that is exactly suitable for a small group of the same type:
an ecological niche
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niche noun [C] (HOLLOW)

a hollow in a wall, especially one made to put a statue (= artistic object) in so that it can be seen
 
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niche
adjective
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/nɪtʃ/
interesting to, aimed at, or affecting only a small number of people:
MMA is not a niche sport any more.
Cars with classic black or grey are easy to resell, but those with red or green interiors are more niche.
niche marketing
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(Definition of niche from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

niche | American Dictionary

niche
noun [ C ]
us
/nɪtʃ/

niche noun [C] (POSITION)

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a job, position, or place that is very suitable for someone:
She’s never quite found her niche on television.
biology
A niche is also an organism's specific position or purpose within the group of organisms with which it lives

niche noun [C] (HOLLOW)

a hollow made in a wall, esp. one designed to put a statue in so that it can be seen
(Definition of niche from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

niche | Business English

niche
noun [ C ]
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/niːʃ/ us
/nɪtʃ/
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MARKETING, COMMERCE
an opportunity for a business to offer a product or service that is not offered by other businesses:
a niche in sth There is a niche in the market for this kind of product.
create/carve a niche The company has carved a niche for itself in the watch-making business.
look for/find a niche They found a niche by selling their line of leather goods through small boutiques that could offer personalized service.
exploit/expand a niche
HR
a job or position that is suitable for a particular type of person:
High-quality web development has generated lots of new niche roles in organizations.
a niche job/position

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market niche
(Definition of niche from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of niche

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Unlike pharmaceuticals, and apart from the giants mentioned above, the industry is highly fragmented, consisting of numerous small niche markets with a few products only.
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There were higher inter-habitat food niche overlaps within-species than between-species.
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Competition, contacts and other factors restricting niches of parasite helminthes.
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Our theoretical analyses, which employed two-locus, population-genetic models, uncovered a number of interesting evolutionary consequences of the feedback from niche construction.
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However, that does not mean there has been no evolutionary feedback from niche construction: it merely switches the evolutionary responses to the cultural domain.
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This is consistent with the view that it was filling a niche in the grammar, that is, speaker thought processing.
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In the following sections we argue that a niche construction perspective is particularly valuable in the study of human evolution.
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In many cases, the niche-constructed by-products of several organisms are exploited by a population.
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Apparently, species with smaller niches (= specialists) have less chance to survive deforestation and are more prone to local extinction than those with wider niches.
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Even here, however, the niche construction model so far promises more than it delivers.
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For humans, cultural information may be expressed in niche construction, but that does not make cultural evolution the same thing as niche construction.
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Yet clearly there was too little space under the roof of the southern niche for machinery of the sort that could work flyings.
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Although the south niche shows clearly in the groundplan, it must have been demolished, along with its side-linking walls and the staircases on either side.
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The mass of the enclosing walls is emphasised by the angled window splays, the thickness of the walls accentuated by the depth of the niches.
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These spiders tend to be quite specialized, exploiting narrow niches that preclude convective air currents.
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Collocations with niche

niche

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empty niche
The empty niche in the bedrock pit may be a similar example.
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new niche
However, as time went by, the public enterprises created a new niche that did not exist beforehand.
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niche application
This, plus its ease of use, make it a valuable niche application, but certainly not for any serious video project.
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Translations of niche

in Chinese (Traditional)
位置, （尤指本人合意的）適合的工作（或職位）, 稱心的工作…
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位置, （尤指本人合意的）适合的工作（或职位）, 称心的工作…
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huequito, nicho, hornacina…
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lugar, nicho…
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uygun yer/iş/mevkî, duvarda bulunan oyuk, niş…
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niche, voie…
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nika, místečko, pevné místo…
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ช่องหรือโพรงบนผนังกำแพงที่ทำไว้เพื่อวางสิ่งบูชา, ตำแหน่งหรือบทบาทในการดำเนินชีวิต…
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hốc tường, vị trí thích hợp…
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nisza, gniazdko, wnęka…
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nisch, [rätt] plats…
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ceruk, bidang…
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die Nische, der Platz…
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nisje, fordypning, plass…
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