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monopoly

/muh-nop-uh-lee/US // məˈnɒp ə li //UK // (məˈnɒpəlɪ) //

垄断,垄断性,垄断经营,专卖

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mo·nop·o·lies.

    • : exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices.Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
    • : an exclusive privilege to carry on a business, traffic, or service, granted by a government.
    • : the exclusive possession or control of something.
    • : something that is the subject of such control, as a commodity or service.
    • : a company or group that has such control.
    • : the market condition that exists when there is only one seller.
    • : a board game in which a player attempts to gain a monopoly of real estate by advancing around the board and purchasing property, acquiring capital by collecting rent from other players whose pieces land on that property.

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Examples

  • The Open Markets Institute, a nonprofit group that advocates against corporate monopolies, released a paper Monday criticizing Amazon’s employee surveillance practices.

  • Microsoft was legally found to be a monopoly 20 years ago, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and ordered broken into two companies.

  • That system is currently owned by San Diego Gas and Electric, which enjoyed an energy monopoly in the region until recently.

  • Because SDG&E is an energy monopoly in our city, they can do what they want and have proven to put their profits over our city’s best interests.

  • Another article from 2007 talking about how MySpace had an unbreakable monopoly in terms of social networking.

  • Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.

  • For decades, these two industrial brewers have basked in a sort of shared-monopoly over the Panamanian beer racket.

  • Mattson says the government bogarts this stuff, gathered at taxpayer expense, and maintains “a monopoly on the data.”

  • Ma wrote online, “Let the users decide who wins the game, not monopoly and power.”

  • And lest you be deceived, primary elections are no partisan monopoly.

  • In 1622 a monopoly of the importation of tobacco was granted to the Virginia and Somers Island, companies.

  • He continued its sale, however, as a kingly monopoly, allowing only those to engage in it who paid him for the privilege.

  • From its first cultivation in these countries it has been a government monopoly.

  • Let it be observed also that we have hitherto been speaking as if all things were produced under a monopoly.

  • It is the one which is sometimes called in books on economics the case of an unique monopoly.