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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.
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Market dominance is not equal to monopoly.
To leftwing Walloons, the EU may be in hock to monopoly capitalism.
The standard concern with increasing economies of scale is that market forces will lead to monopoly production.
The Google case underscores a basic difference between the approaches to monopoly power in Europe and the United States.
Industries based on knowledge, the argument goes, are especially prone to increasing returns, and hence to monopoly.
Lesser remedies like orders to monopoly companies to cease abusive tactics have proved difficult to police, he said.
It established an agency the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—with sweeping authority to prevent business practices that would lead to monopoly.
Chester speaks rapidly and passionately, jumping in mid-sentence from privacy to monopoly and then to a conversation he had that morning with an F.T.C. staffer.
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The new networks give rise to monopolies.
An end to monopolies, greater choice, services built round individuals.
New legislation sought to enforce fair trading and to guard against a return to monopolies.
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