All 7 Uses of
monopoly
in
Dune
- We've a three-point civilization: the Imperial Household balanced against the Federated Great Houses of the Landsraad, and between them, the Guild with its damnable monopoly on interstellar transport.†
Book 1
- The Guild's as jealous of its privacy as it is of its monopoly.†
Book 1 *
- The damnable Guild monopoly on space would've ruined us if I hadn't planned for this expense long ago.†
Book 2
- To begin with, early space travel, although widespread, was largely unregulated, slow, and uncertain, and, before the Guild monopoly, was accomplished by a hodgepodge of methods.†
Book A2 -
- It was a move encouraged by the Spacing Guild, which was beginning to build its monopoly over all interstellar travel, and by the Bene Gesserit who were banding the sorceresses.†
Book A2 -
- With a date it signifies Before Guild and identifies the Imperial dating system based on the genesis of the Spacing Guild's monopoly.†
Book Term
- The Guild monopoly on space travel and transport and upon international banking is taken as the beginning point of the Imperial Calendar.†
Book Term
Definition:
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(monopoly) the only supplier of a good or service; or a market with only one supplier