Synonym: control, corner, possession. Similar words: monotonously, monotonous, poly, polygon, polygamy, polyglot, polytheism, polynomial. Meaning: [mə'nɑpəlɪ /-'nɒ-] n. 1. (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller 2. exclusive control or possession of something 3. a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die.
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(121) Hundreds of state-owned companies, from the telephone monopoly to steel foundries, have been sold in the past decade.
(122) The specter that has haunted the economist has been the monopoly seeking extortionate gains at the public expense.
(123) It became his program, and it established something akin to a monopoly over his mind.
(124) A visit to a stately home and certainly a game of Monopoly could not be pure fun, divorced from politics.
(125) We begin with a more general discussion of all forms of imperfect competition and monopoly power.
(126) But this will entail major political concessions by the government, including the surrender of the state monopoly over electronic media.
(127) Of course, with the development of international monopoly capital and multinational companies, additional sources of power have been brought into play.
(128) The reason for this is probably that it implies oligopolies that behave in a way intermediate between perfect competition and monopoly.
(129) He fears this would merely create a private-sector monopoly and would not improve the service.
(130) However, monopoly corporations and unions tend to resist the appropriation of surplus created by social capital but appropriated privately.
(131) For these reasons, the precise extent of the social cost of monopoly remains a subject of continuing controversy.
(132) Self also believes it is wrong to assume that bureau chiefs generally control a monopoly.
(133) Bureaucracies need to have a near monopoly of political and administrative information. 6.
(134) Also, when profits are driven down to zero, the degree of monopoly power equals the degree of economies of scale.
(135) It seems Mr Zaitsev may be about to lose his monopoly on fame.
(136) It has for years fought hard to preserve the monopoly in giant airliners that it has through the 747.
(137) He made us some fine sets of playing cards and a neat Monopoly board.
(138) Nobody now supposes that political processes begin and end with elections, or that elected governments have a monopoly of political power.
(139) It is a monopoly with a little managed competition on the fringes.
(140) Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.
(141) No particular religion can ever embody the perfection of Religion or lay claim to a monopoly of Truth.
(142) This can result in higher outputs, lower prices and the reduction of monopoly profits.
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(143) There is no monopoly on good ideas, nor any fixed blueprints to which community and individual development must conform.
(144) How should we measure the social cost of monopoly power and inefficient resource allocation?
(145) Its administrative monopoly gave it special privileges and preferential economic treatment.
(146) With the simple constant mark-up pricing supposed, the tax on monopoly profit makes no difference.
(147) The large dividends paid by the more successful companies incorporated a substantial element of monopoly profit.
(148) If they did work and were transferred to anyone, that person would have a private monopoly.
(149) It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly.
(150) The most important was the monopoly on the re-sale of valuable Western goods, especially cars, within the country.
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