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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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If it targets only a captive audience, the intelligentsia, it is an exercise in futility, he argues.
Children become a captive audience for ads showing expensive sneakers, junk food, and soda pop.
I wanted revenge, but I could hear the suppressed laughter and snickering coming from my captive audience.
Bodyboarders are a captive audience for trunks and wetsuits, so there is no need to market to them.
In a radio context, drive time simply refers to the late afternoon slot when homebound commuters are a captive audience.
The problem is places where there's a captive audience and no one is available to respond to requests, like the Laundromat or the airport.

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