Synonyms for monopoly
məˈnɒp ə limo·nop·o·ly

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1. monopolynoun

   Antonyms:
   monopsony

2. monopolynoun

   A board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.

   Antonyms:
   monopsony

3. monopolynoun

   A land monopoly renders its holder(s) nearly almighty in an agricultural society

   Antonyms:
   monopsony

4. monopolynoun

   Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift

   Antonyms:
   monopsony

5. monopolynoun

   Antonyms:
   monopsony

6. monopolynoun

   The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the the above manners.

   Synonyms:
   monopolist

   Antonyms:
   monopsony

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1. monopoly

   Synonyms:
   privilege, engrossment, appropriation, exclusiveness, preoccupancy, impropriation

   Antonyms:
   participation, partnership, community, competition, free-trade

Princeton's WordNet

1. monopolynoun

   (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"

2. monopolynoun

   exclusive control or possession of something

   "They have no monopoly on intelligence"

3. Monopolynoun

   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

Matched Categories

1. • Board Game
   • Dominance
   • Economics
   • Market

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1. monopolynoun

   Synonyms:
   exclusive possession

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1. List of paraphrases for "monopoly":

   monopolies, monopolistic, monopolization, monopole, monopolist, demonopolization, monopolisation, anti-monopoly

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1. David Cicilline:

   Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook each hold monopoly power over significant sectors of our economy. This monopoly moment must end, now that the Judiciary Committee has formally adopted our findings, I look forward to crafting legislation that addresses the significant concerns we have raised.

2. Anne Marriott:

   These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits many pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines, these vaccines were funded by public money and should be first and foremost a global public good, not a private profit opportunity.

3. Albert Jay Nock:

   It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

4. Julian LeBaron:

   They have a monopoly on security and they get paid a wage for protection and later we find out that they participate in the murder of women and children.

5. Gene Kimmelman:

   At the time the government broke up ATT, what many people don't realize is that Congress was in the process of passing legislation that would have also restructured or broken up ATT, so there was enormous parallel tracking between the Justice Department case and the congressional effort to restructure the telephone monopoly.