monopoly
垄断,垄断性,垄断经营,专卖
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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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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.