Monopoly
[mə'nɒp(ə)lɪ] or [mə'nɑpəli]
解釋/意思:
(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.
(noun.) exclusive control or possession of something; 'They have no monopoly on intelligence'.
(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'.
錄入:提托--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.
(n.) Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land.
(n.) The commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France.
錄入:奥利维尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Exclusive possession.
錄入:里基
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Privilege, engrossment, appropriation, exclusiveness, preoccupancy,impropriation
ANT:Participation, partnership, community, competition, free-trade
休伯特校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A modern device for impoverishing others. From Grk. monux, swift-footed, and polloi, the people. A swift kick for the people.
巴纳德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- We cannot give our workmen a monopoly in the foreign, as we have done in the home market. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Those merchants and manufacturers enjoy a sort of monopoly in the country which is so indulgent to them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company, has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- For years his name was branded on every Bell telephone set, and his patents were a mainstay of what has been popularly called the Bell monopoly. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Our graziers still continue subject to the old monopoly. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- No bounty upon exportation, no monopoly of the home market, can raise that value. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They converted what they could of the conquered people to Islam; the Christians they disarmed, and conferred upon them the monopoly of tax-paying. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is quite otherwise with the employment into which the monopoly naturally attracts, if I may say so, the capital of the London merchant. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Without a monopoly, however, a joint-stock company, it would appear from experience, cannot long carry on any branch of foreign trade. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Whatever expense Great Britain has hitherto laid out in maintaining this dependency, has really been laid out in order to support this monopoly. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The price of monopoly is upon every occasion the highest which can be got. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The monopoly raises the rate of profit, but it hinders the sum of profit from rising so high as it otherwise would do. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- My carbon-transmitter patent was sustained, and preserved the monopoly of the telephone in England for many years. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Turkey and Greece once had a monopoly of it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Our master manufacturers think it reasonable that they themselves should have the monopoly of the ingenuity of all their countrymen. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In the same year (146 B.C.) the Roman Senate and Equestrians also _murdered_ another great city that seemed to limit their trade monopolies, Corinth. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Monopolies of this kind are properly established against the very nation which erects them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
彻姬塔編輯