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Definition

the only supplier of a good or service; or a market with only one supplier

When you have a monopoly you can raise prices.

monopoly = a situation where you are the only supplier of a good or service

They have no monopoly on intelligence
a monopoly on silver
Monopoly is the enemy of efficiency.
Thomas Sowell -- Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Do you think you have a monopoly on the truth?
Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men

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.
Dalton Trumbo -- Johnny Got His Gun

monopoly = exclusive control (of the supply of something sold)

Then we played a bunch of cheesy party games like charades and Monopoly.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
He wished they could just move their Monopoly pieces and pretend the time wasn't ticking away.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Among the Hidden
I remember we used to play Monopoly and checkers, didn't we?"
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
The most popular is Monopoly pieces, but this will prove to be wrong.
Jerry Spinelli -- Stargirl
I stared at him for a moment, and then said, "I kissed her that night, and I've got a monopoly on that."
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
Imagining how to spend freedom: squander it, invest it, use it like Monopoly money.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
To which they retorted that the surest way of playing the game of the red robes was to leave to them the monopoly of the death penalty.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
Besides, your brother probably has Jamie smoking his Cuban cigars and playing Monopoly with real money by now.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
"That's another favorite, though I'll admit the Russians have the monopoly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
And they accuse IG Farben of monopolistic practices!
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Well, so have I. Peter didn't have a monopoly on that, whatever the testers thought.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
No sooner were the spirit monopolies abolished than the railways came up, and banking companies; that, too, is profit without work.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
The state is an organization of violence, a monopoly in what it is pleased to call legitimate violence.
John Gardner -- Grendel

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