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UK
/mənˈɒpəlˈɪstɪk/
]
[ US /məˌnɑpəˈɫɪstɪk/ ]
[ US /məˌnɑpəˈɫɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant
How To Use monopolistic In A Sentence
- A study by the OECD and Mexico's Federal Competition Commission (CFC) found that 31% of Mexican household spending went on products supplied in monopolistic or highly oligopolistic markets.
- Since markets are interconnected and some banks occupy quasi - monopolistic positions, we must consider breaking them up.
- If the bid succeeds, his control of the newspaper market on the island of Ireland would be close to monopolistic.
- Software companies in monopolistic houses shouldn’t throw stones! Google-DoubleClick Deal Raising Lots of Questions
- We have precisely the same structure - a monopolistic, representation body endorsed by statute.
- Restrictions on these markets allow them to remain monopolistic.
- We attributed the Great Depression to monopolistic restraints.
- Everything they will suggest plays right into the hands of the pockets of the medical oligopoly which is lead by the monopolistic AMA. GOP seeks to counter ABC programming
- Time marches on, companies making money are always working a niche (sometimes a big monopolistic niche), and people doing well are always fighting to keep things the same (aka maximize their profit). Boing Boing
- A similar group of organized men from the Second Ward objected to the way Jackson, in monopolistic fashion, put his exclusive liberties above the collective good. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840