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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(181) Within the state sector, the statutory public monopoly of electricity supply and express delivery service has been ended.
(182) Monopoly or the full control of supply, and hence of price, by a single firm was the ultimate security.
(183) It is not good for consumers if one company has a monopoly in any area of trade.
(184) But they will still be independent of a powerful state monopoly and monolith.
(185) Northern is taking steps to protect its supplies when the Milk Marketing Board's monopoly on milk ends.
(186) Everybody stops playing cards and Monopoly, turns toward the day-room door.
(187) Since the boycott of eastern goods was not totally effective, it enabled Gentile merchants to establish a virtual monopoly in commerce.
(188) Shares could plummet under plans by the government regulator to split the huge monopoly into two.
(189) First, they are related to subadditivity - the question of whether or not the industry is a natural monopoly.
(190) In principle, in some natural monopoly industries outside controls are superfluous.
(191) In many cases a virtual monopoly service has been involved and the direct target has been the public.
(192) One smaller Catalan industry, cork, was more consistent in its growth because it held a monopoly of raw material.
(193) It is poor families who are usually stuck with the worst consequences of school monopoly and bureaucratization.
(194) We will lower the limit on the Post office monopoly much closer to the level of the first class stamp.
(195) For a time at least the Bank as monopoly supplier can charge any rate it chooses.
(196) It allows them the monopoly to exploit their invention for a period without unauthorised limitation or competition.
(197) Catherine spoke with unusual authority at a time when men held a near monopoly on religious power in the church.
(198) Every Sunday we play Monopoly or some other board game.
(199) It has competition, but such a mammoth market share as to be a monopoly.
(200) Above all, the United States had a monopoly on the atomic bomb.
(201) The buyer would want the price to be well below the value of his monopoly, to maximise his profits.
(202) As the medical establishment tightened its monopoly on diagnosis and prescription[sentencedict.com], it also expanded the area under its control.
(203) When an industry is imperfectly competitive we say that each firm in the industry enjoys a degree of monopoly power.
(204) The approach also assumes. without showing what it is, that monopoly capital has a single and unitary purpose and goal.
(205) The rising concentration of industry and the possible adverse effects on monopoly power are viewed as the factors of paramount importance.
(206) This has important consequences for a key factor in the model - the bureaucrat's monopoly of information.
(207) All the artificial constraints of maintaining a regulated monopoly mean that it is not in the best interests of the consumer.
(208) Because the state tried to enforce a monopoly on ideas, intellectuals were both at great risk and terrifically influential.
(209) If it falls also on monopoly profits, the total yield of the tax is.
(210) In passing, it is worth remarking that the ultimate recipients of monopoly profits are the monopolist's shareholders.
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