11 example sentences using oligopoly.
Oligopoly used in a sentence
Oligopoly in a sentence as a noun
But it's better than a locked-down app store oligopoly.
What pisses me off: It takes something like Google to compete with the entrenched oligopoly.
I think the objection here is to the cell phone market, which more resembles a cross between an oligopoly and a cartel than a free market.
Do you think it's "unfair" that companies in an oligopoly aren't allowed to form a price-fixing cartel.
If we're going to bestow that much power upon a three-member oligopoly, then we should demand much greater responsibility of its members.
Live by the channel, die by the channel: if you depend on an oligopoly, you sink into bad habits that are hard to overcome when you suddenly get competition.
I haven't deleted it, but for me the problem lies somewhere else:The tech-sector is slowly growing into an oligopoly or at least that's my impression.
He was against any kind of cartel, oligopoly, or monopoly, and wanted the state to be more powerful than corporations, not controlled by corporations.
Personally, I would prefer more general solutions to the problem of "corporate cliques" gaining oligopoly powers.
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. Our little oligopoly had a total lock on the buff market - it was a golden age!When I quit the game a couple of months later, I had millions in credits which I sold for a few thousand $US.
However, in a cartel situation where there's no threat of duopoly or oligopoly, there's more incentive to join the cartel than there is to attempt to disband the central monopoly that's essentially controlling the cartel.
Oligopoly definitions
(economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors