moatとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /məʊt/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /moʊt/
  • 韻: -əʊt
  • Homophone: mote

名詞

moat (複数形 moats)

1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

   Synonym: fosse

2. (business, figuratively) An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
   • 2013, John Mauldin; Jonathan Tepper, Code Red: How to Protect Your Savings From the Coming Crisis‎^[1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     No matter how good your company's product is or how quickly the industry is growing, if there is no moat, competitors will invade your castle and burn it down.

   • 2018 May 7, Andrew Ross Sorkin, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk Wants to Fill Warren Buffett’s ‘Moat’ With Candy, but It Still Holds Water”, in The New York Times‎^[2], ISSN 0362-4331:

     “I think ‘moats’ are lame,” Mr. Musk had said during a Tesla earnings call. It was a criticism of an economic principle that Mr. Buffett had coined in 1999 and that has become something of a mantra for his faithful: Invest in businesses “that have wide, sustainable moats around them.”

3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
4. (obsolete) A hill or mound.