The word "monopolistic" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe when one company wholly dominates a sector or industry, making it difficult for other companies to compete or operate. For example, "Due to its monopolistic practices, the company was eventually charged with anti-trust violations."
The LME and Goldman Sachs are named as co-defendants in the suit alleging "anti-competitive and monopolistic behaviour in the warehousing market in connection with aluminium prices".
The London Metal Exchange and the investment bank Goldman Sachs are being sued in a US court over alleged anti-competitive and monopolistic behaviour in aluminium storage.
This has some similarities to the European Union's system of mutual recognition of member countries' securities regulations although the European approach does not encourage firms to switch from one country to another.Why might her proposal work better than monopolistic regulation?
The result of all this will be an industry even more centralised and monopolistic than before.
Behind this battle lies another one, in which the CME's competitors are fighting to persuade trustbusters that its bid, if successful, would create a monopolistic monster, whereas the exchange insists that the deal is about staying ahead of the pack, not price-gouging.On the face of it, there is plenty of reason to worry.
But that wholesalers' prices are quicker to adjust to exchange-rate imbalances does not explain why they exist at all: why does arbitrage not lead importers to eradicate the disparities altogether?As the authors admit, other factors must come into play, such as the ability of monopolistic suppliers to discriminate between markets in their pricing policy.
The city still owns 100% of the land and thus all owners of buildings face a monopolistic landlord.Jacqueline CoolidgeChevy Chase, MarylandToxic adviceSIR – Recycling e-waste (computers, mobile phones and the like) does little for the environment ("How green is your Apple?", August 26th).
And, as Mr Blair has argued umpteen times before, it was not just the inadequate funding of the past that was the problem, but the inability of monopolistic provision to respond to consumer needs.
Education reforms in Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia have also borne fruit.But that is only the start.The ex-communist countries need radical reform of higher education; into the rubbish bin must go old communist-era bureaucracies with their monopolistic, bureaucratic and risk-averse thinking.
But that may reflect the fact that, after a brief fling with the idea that they could be growth stocks, the market has returned to the old view that these are highly regulated, low-growth monopolistic utilities.The overall picture, then, is of an industry that continues to split down the middle.
Last year, Burhanuddin Abdullah, governor of Indonesia's central bank, warned that without changes, the "fund's credibility will continue to be undermined due to the monopolistic behaviour of large countries with veto power".
