Monopolies
[mə'nɔpəliz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Monopoly
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Examples
- 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. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Monopolies of this kind are properly established against the very nation which erects them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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