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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(151) For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book.
(152) In such cases, governments can grant a private monopoly and regulate its prices, or they can create a public monopoly.
(153) The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon, the principal export commodity.
(154) Microsoft, which has had a virtual monopoly, has managed 53 % a year.
(155) Broadcast station licenses and monopoly cable franchises cost their original owners nothing except legal fees.
(156) BThis monopoly protection will end once the doors of the electric power business fully open to competition over the next few years.
(157) It would have suited the economic interests of monopoly capital if the plan had proposed a high rate of growth.
(158) The Energy Act abolished the public sector's monopoly and allowed private companies to generate electricity as a main business.
(159) This is an anti- inflationary attempt to regulate the economy in conditions of monopoly and where there is an absence of competition.
(160) To a Marxist-Leninist, control of resources is power; the monopoly of political power follows from this rather than precedes it.
(161) This fusion is cemented by the dominant role of monopoly capital in financing and influencing non-communist political parties and the mass media.
(162) Bureaucracies are often credited with a monopoly of expertise which place them in a superior position to lay politicians.
(163) It was not easy to persuade the monarchy to let go of its monopoly of power.
(164) The removal of tariffs can reduce monopoly power within the home country by increasing the possible sources of supply.
(165) Real world monopoly is a much less precise concept than that of theory.
(166) In calculating the size of deadweight burden triangles under monopoly[sentencedict.com], different economists have used different estimates of the elasticity of demand.
(167) But the main use of this act in relation to present concerns is regarding exploitation of monopoly situations.
(168) Tax concessions for new companies and the end of the state monopoly on import-export trade were also announced.
(169) When Telmex was privatized in 1989, it agreed to give up its monopoly over long-distance service in January 1997.
(170) The new Act removes the monopoly on starting and conducting litigation.
(171) Children of welfare-dependent single-parent families have neither a monopoly on juvenile crime nor a disdain for conventional values.
(172) The toy companies are always trying to find another money-spinner like Monopoly or the Barbie doll.
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(173) We had grown up with a monopoly situation and there was no semblance of looking outside.
(174) Neither is it acceptable to see the state as entirely dependent on monopoly capital as some Marxists still suggest.
(175) These of course are the mergers most relevant to the formation of even larger companies with potential monopoly power.
(176) They therefore had a monopoly on technological advances and the dynamics of capitalist production.
(177) It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits.
(178) We enjoyed a monopoly in this trade, but unfortunately for those successful in the boom, it couldn't last for ever.
(179) Notice, finally, that this approach suggests that monopoly policy should not be independent of other aspects of government policy.
(180) The most we can say is that if there are still economies of scale unexploited, the industry is a natural monopoly.
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