The word "monopolies" is correct and usable in written English, and it can be used as a noun to describe a market situation in which a single company or group has exclusive control over a certain product or service
For example: "The government introduced legislation to reduce the number of monopolies in the telecommunications industry."
"These are old monopolies that have become privatised, and I think if you don't get tough regulation, you do get the consumer being ripped off," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
The final power networks are run as monopolies by individual companies such as SSE and Western Power Distribution under price controls implemented by Ofgem.
Instead of giving the stock answer, he said that monopolies being large, were more likely to pay stable wages and wanted to get on with the unions.
Monopolies form but are undermined by the impossibility of enforcing property rights.
The defence of enterprise, profit and business was welcome but the party still needs to show that it is prepared to stand up for the consumer and citizen against vested interests and monopolies in both the public and private sector.
Originally built in the seventeenth century by the Portuguese as a smuggling settlement to undermine Spanish trading monopolies, all that remains is a crumbling old town with rutted cobbled streets, a fort and several museums.
Fat margins on products too complicated to compare in mature markets dominated by former monopolies leave room for price-cutting and innovation, both have proven (see chart).
At present, most of the big former state-owned monopolies are still rated AA or thereabouts by Moody's and Standard & Poors (S&P), the two big American rating agencies.
Were that not the case, all manner of harmful monopolies could spring up based on common ideas found in nature or everyday life such as boiling water to make tea that could feasibly be used to prevent others from doing the same, or at least to require them to pay a licence fee.
