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UK
/mənˈɒpəli/
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[ US /məˈnɑpəɫi/ ]
[ US /məˈnɑpəɫi/ ]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use Monopoly In A Sentence
- One might think that having a baseline regulated industry (cable TV or telephone service) over which the wire base has been amortized and out of which the cost of upkeep are paid, that a government-regulated monopoly might be put in the position of offering wholesale access to competitors on a level playing field. National Broadband Plan Is Cash for Clunking Carriers « PubliCola
- The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
- Monopoly is Hasbro's largest selling board game with 1.5m games sold per year.
- There are two evils of our present railway system, however, which are not chargeable to monopoly, but to the _attempt to defeat monopoly_, and which are important to our discussion. Monopolies and the People
- The term agrarianism derived partly from the ancient Roman agrarian law to redistribute property and Thomas Paine's 1797 work, Agrarian Justice Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly: Being a Plan for Meliorating the Condition of Man, By Creating in Every Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
- It would seem as though the historical monopoly on information previously enjoyed by real estate brokerages is starting to disappear, and the profession will involve less horse trading, and there will be a fewer number of more highly qualified and scrupulous agents adding value as advocates to real estate deals, paid not out of the proceeds – which I consider a real conflict of interest – but for their time. Real estate agents are next « BuzzMachine
- In theory, but seldom in practice, their supposedly superior knowledge gave them a monopoly over the practice of physic and the authority to supervise the work of surgeons.
- a partial monopoly
- This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
- He thought they could be beaten-that their virtual monopoly of the running shoe market could be overthrown.