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What is a captive audience?

What is a captive audience? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person or people who are unable to leave a place or situation and are thus forced to listen to or watch something.
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They do, however, represent a captive audience and, what is more, an audience in a highly receptive frame of mind.
I don't even begrudge them the 30 minutes' worth of commercials they subjected their captive audience to.
Bodyboarders are a captive audience for trunks and wetsuits, so there is no need to market to them.
I wanted revenge, but I could hear the suppressed laughter and snickering coming from my captive audience.
Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside.
They're a captive audience, with no real choices and no real means to fight for their right to party.

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