monopoly
Significado (Inglés)
- 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.
- The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.
- (metonymically) The market thus controlled.
- (metonymically) The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the above manners.
Conceptos
Opuesto a
monopsony, polypoly
Sinónimos
exclusive possession
hoardig
special occupation
principal occupation
proprietary articles
proprietary materials
subject of numerous patents
Traducciones
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/məˈnɒpəli/
Etimología (Inglés)
From Latin monopōlium, from Ancient Greek μονοπώλιον (monopṓlion, “a right of exclusive sale”), from μόνος (mónos, “sole”) + πωλέω (pōléō, “I barter, sell”). By surface analysis, mono- + -poly.
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