Sentence examples for Monopoly from inspiring English sources
The word "Monopoly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to the game where players compete to acquire the most wealth by buying and trading properties. For example: My family loves playing Monopoly on the weekends.
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.
Of course, I know that the BBC doesn't have a monopoly on virtue and that we sometimes get things wrong.
Yet that said, football has its fair share of ground-baggers, badge hunters and nutcases, cricket does not have a monopoly on the summer sporting eccentric.
Putin is still widely expected to win the presidential election on 4 March and remains the country's most popular politician, something his critics attribute to the state's monopoly on television and access to politics.
Europe's anti-trust regulator has accused Russia's massive gas monopoly, Gazprom, of unfair pricing practices in Moscow's former satellite states of eastern Europe, launching a legal dispute that could result in multibillion-euro fines for the Kremlin's giant energy company.
The use of that power had awful consequences for women, for children, for artists, for anyone who fell foul of the church's moral monopoly.
Like Game of Thrones, Monopoly always ends up being ruined by a Lannister.
Last year, state monopoly Russian Railways announced it was looking to buy a majority stake in the Greek port of Thessaloniki.
The video features Niall Horan playing Monopoly and setting himself on fire.
If you've played real Monopoly, you'll know why this is so exciting.
The story of Game of Thrones is already basically just a Monopoly session writ large, full of aggressive trading and spurious imprisonments and players seeking to gain total control over their peers.
"When this kind of behaviour is allowed to go unchallenged, and an ex-monopoly advantage that the big six have, is allowed to go unchallenged by Ofgem, then you will never get effective competition.
