Monopoly in a sentence as a noun

Ignorance is not a monopoly of the elite.

Some of their products are great, but a lot of it is just an obvious monopoly enabled money grab. I wish this wasn't the case.

This hurts the Windows monopoly for sure, but the point is not to **** Windows. The point is to increase their own lock-in and device sell rates.

I've known about this monopoly for a while, and so has she. Heck, one of the first movies we watched together when we first started dating 7 years ago was Blood Diamond.

Folks, these are the people running the US. These are the people who have a monopoly on force, and who claim the moral highground to do with you what they will for the nation. Why the **** aren't you doing something?

Libertarians don't necessarily not believe in laws, they simply don't believe in a monopoly of laws and law enforcers. This is kind of the whole point.

It serves tens of thousands users a year and enjoys monopoly on the services it's users require. I'm familiar with that situation.

Because the telcos are currently enjoying a "natural monopoly". The cost of entry to become a telco is so high, that normal competitive forces do not apply.

Trying to enter into every industry it can thinking it can use it's monopoly power to take over the world. Reality: Doing 20 things mediocrely is not as profitable of doing 2 things very very well.

Government doesn't want the fee income to go away, taxi companies enjoy their monopoly. Sometimes it takes someone breaking the rules - and more importantly, with the general full support of the public - to really cause any change in the old, entrenched ways.

I know it would be painful, and the local politics certifiably insane, but if Google wanted draw attention to the dysfunctional monopoly of the cable industry, there would be no better place to wire than Philly. Take the competition right into Comcast's back yard.

Yes, the taxi companies are trying to shut down Uber and Lyft using regulation, but they are just trying to enforce a legal monopoly granted to them by the cities in which they operate. It's a legal right they got in return to agreeing to measures like rate regulation and "common carrier"-esque regulations concerning routes.

With the constant trade and monopoly prices, I was able to further entrench my dominant position each month by continuing to out bid any other doctor who tried to purchase avian meat. There were two other doctors on the server who managed to offer buffs for most of the month, and whilst I never talked to them, I noticed that they never went below whatever price I set.

Most of the software they consume is getting written by AppAmaGooFaceSoft because they can underwrite it with their massive monopoly rents, subsidize the cost straight down to zero, and deal with the CS headaches attendant in serving poor people by sending them to a call tree / web app backended by a Markov chain backended by /dev/null. There's also a bit of "every problem has a software solution" enthusiasm which is, well, a bit overstated.

Some of them are due to just differences in historical context between the 60s and the 2000's, some are probably due to how Bell's monopoly effected it's R&D approaches, sure. It would be interesting to delve into this. But they are definitely not about the "fundamental differences between a publicly traded company and a state-sanctioned monopoly," the OP is just confused. Bell/AT&T was a publicly traded company, as well as a state-sanctioned monopoly.

The knowledge that any citizen can file a complaint about an unnecessarily hostile interaction means that police officers will begin to act the way they are supposed to, as the only members of our community to whom we grant a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force. I also believe that video cameras will have a positive impact on police, increasing the respect they receive from the community and their self-respect, and enabling them to prove that they are often in the right around contested confrontations.

Monopoly definitions

noun

(economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask any price you like"

noun

exclusive control or possession of something; "They have no monopoly on intelligence"

noun

a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die

See also: Monopoly