big six
Dominant industry leaders
Big six refers to a dominant group of six entities in a particular industry or field.
The specific six depends on context: in UK energy, the major utility companies; in accounting, the largest global firms (before mergers reduced them); in American history, the civil rights leaders who organized the 1963 March on Washington.
The phrase implies market dominance or outsized influence: The big six control most of the market share.
British Gas
UK home energy provider
- SSEParallel data instruction set
- utilityFunctional worth or purpose
- electricityEnergy from charged particles
gas · tariff · supplier · billing · meter · market share · oligopoly · switching · price cap · dual fuel
century
Hundred-year span
boundary · fours · batsman · bowler · all-rounder · duck · partnership · catch · run-out · crease
big sixblackjack
Card game to twenty-one
poker · twenty-one · baccarat · craps · card games
big sixsmall fry
Children or insignificant people
little guys · minnows · independents · startups · mom-and-pop
big, bigger, biggest, six, sixes, sixth, sixths, sixthly, sixteen