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monopolist

/muh-nop-uh-list/US // məˈnɒp ə lɪst //

垄断者,垄断分子,垄断家,壟斷者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who has a monopoly.
    • : an advocate of monopoly.

Examples

  • Epic tried to convince Gonzalez Rogers that Apple’s App Store was in itself a “market,” over which Apple is a monopolist, and wanted the judge to force Apple to allow alternative app stores and payment processing systems on its phones.

  • As for Epic’s other claims, Gonzalez Rogers said the company “overreached” and couldn’t prove that Apple was a monopolist.

  • It is an imperfect situation, a blunt instrument where surgical precision would be better, but the alternative is to cede even more power to unelected monopolists.

  • It is almost as if the agency expects the court to simply nod to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is a monopolist.

  • Whether Amazon is a retail monopolist is an open question—its total sales remain well below Walmart’s, and even in online commerce its market share is below 50%.

  • So, like any monopolist, the agency ballooned into a bureaucratic monstrosity that spends much of its wealth on itself.

  • A billionaire monopolist mobilizes a Tea Party protest movement to stifle competition—thwarting thousands of jobs in the process.

  • In and of itself the monopoly price corresponds to the monopolist's profit and not to cheapness of sale.

  • Let us consider next what wages the monopolist in the cases described above will have to pay.

  • And now notice the peculiar relation that is set up between the monopolist's production and the satisfaction of human wants.

  • The effect of an enforced monopoly is to drive competitors away, and give the monopolist the whole market on his own terms.

  • But, monopolist though Mrs. Gamp showed herself to be in her manner of holding forth, her talk never degenerated into a monologue.