monopoly

Significado (Inglés)

1. 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.
2. An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
3. The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.
4. (metonymically) The market thus controlled.
5. (metonymically) The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the above manners.

Oposto a

monopsony, polypoly

Sinónimos

patent

exclusive possession

specialty

cabal

cartel

coalition

combination

combine

conspiracy

copyright

©️

exclusive right

federation

hoardig

hoarding

knock

league

method

monopolist

monopolistic

move

organization

pick out

prerogative

proprietary

ridicule

single-handed

syndicate

trust

union

special occupation

principal occupation

organisation

proprietary articles

proprietary materials

alliance

subject of numerous patents

association

bloc

Traducións

monopole

Monopol

monopolio

monopolie

monopólio

monopolio

μονοπώλιο

monopoli

alleenhandel

esclusiva

monopolium

tekel

inhisar

Aufkauf

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/məˈnɒpəli/

Etimoloxía (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.