barrier to entry
Meanings
noun
- An impediment that prohibits the use, adoption, application, etc. of (something).
- A cost that must be incurred by a new entrant into a market, but which does not apply to incumbents.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see barrier, to, entry.
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