Monopolies
Meaning of Monopolies
noun
- A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
- An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
A land monopoly renders its holder(s) nearly almighty in an agricultural society.
- The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.
Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift.
- (metonymy) The market thus controlled.
- (metonymy) The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the above manners.
Information about Monopolies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of Monopolies is: Monopoly.
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Hyphenation of Monopolies
Mo-nop-o-lies
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- Monopolies is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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