Sentences with monopoly
mo·nop·o·ly
M m - ...Russian moves to end a state monopoly on land ownership. [+ on]
- ...a state-owned monopoly.
- I wanted to break up the monopoly, some people call it the closed shop, that the maritime union has exercised over the waterfront all these years.
- Steam's monopoly in the digital distribution of games recently stirred an interesting discussion.
- Women do not have a monopoly on feelings of betrayal. [+ on]
- Was the merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio an attempt to gain a monopoly or was it the brain.
- The day has come when consumers are no longer chained to a monopoly when it comes to TV choices.
- Cowgirls do not have a monopoly on cute and stylish, and these boots are definitely that.
- Monopoly applies to the exclusive control of a commodity, etc., as defined above; a , trust is a combination of corporations, organized for the purpose of gaining a monopoly, in which stock is turned over to trustees who issue stock certificates to the stockholders: trusts are now illegal in the U.S.; , cartel, the European term for a trust, now usually implies an international trust; a , syndicate is now usually a group of bankers, corporations, etc. organized to buy large blocks of securities, afterward selling them in small parcels to the public at a profit; a , corner is a temporary speculative monopoly of some stock or commodity for the purpose of raising the price