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  • When you have a monopoly, you can raise prices.
    monopoly = complete control of a product
  • Do you think you have a monopoly on the truth?  (source)
    monopoly = a situation where there is only supplier of a good or service
  • He was the only hamburger man in Shale City so he had a monopoly on the business.  (source)
    monopoly = exclusive control (of the supply of something sold)
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  • Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all.†  (source)
  • I explained that we were for a more even distribution of the rewards of certain industries, industries that were already monopolies, and that nationalization might occur in some of those areas.†  (source)
  • In those years prior to the establishment of the T.V.A., the Senator from Nebraska was the nation's most outspoken advocate of public power; and he believed that the "monopolistic power trust" had dictated the nomination of Hoover and the Republican platform.†  (source)
  • The only one he recognizes immediately is an American: L. Bob Rife, the cabletelevision monopolist.†  (source)
  • All these people, just like our spirit monopolists in old days, get their money in a way that gains them the contempt of everyone.†  (source)
  • Peter didn't have a monopoly on that, whatever the testers thought.†  (source)
  • General Epanchin, as everyone knew, had a good deal to do with certain government monopolies; he was also a voice, and an important one, in many rich public companies of various descriptions; in fact, he enjoyed the reputation of being a well-to-do man of busy habits, many ties, and affluent means.†  (source)
  • And they accuse IG Farben of monopolistic practices!†  (source)
  • Yeah, you know, a monopolist's work is never done.†  (source)
  • L. Bob Rife, last of the nineteenth-century monopolists, is shown consulting with his decorator in the captain's quarters.†  (source)
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