0 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 ecological niche
1 a hollow in a wall, especially one made to put a statue (= artistic object) in so that it can be seen
2 interesting to, aimed at, or affecting only a small number of people:
3 a job, position, or place that is very suitable for someone:
She’s never quite found her niche on television.
4 a hollow made in a wall, esp. one designed to put a statue in so that it can be seen
5 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.
6 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.
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.
There were higher inter-habitat food niche overlaps within-species than between-species.
Competition, contacts and other factors restricting niches of parasite helminthes.
Our theoretical analyses, which employed two-locus, population-genetic models, uncovered a number of interesting evolutionary consequences of the feedback from niche construction.
However, that does not mean there has been no evolutionary feedback from niche construction: it merely switches the evolutionary responses to the cultural domain.
This is consistent with the view that it was filling a niche in the grammar, that is, speaker thought processing.
In the following sections we argue that a niche construction perspective is particularly valuable in the study of human evolution.
In many cases, the niche-constructed by-products of several organisms are exploited by a population.
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