All 7 Uses
monopoly
in
Snow Crash
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- The only one he recognizes immediately is an American: L. Bob Rife, the cabletelevision monopolist.†
Chpt 7-8 *
- L. Bob Rife, last of the nineteenth-century monopolists, is shown consulting with his decorator in the captain's quarters.†
Chpt 13-14
- Yeah, you know, a monopolist's work is never done.†
Chpt 13-14
- No such thing as a perfect monopoly.†
Chpt 13-14
- Voice communications monopoly.†
Chpt 13-14
- Cot a monopoly to run.†
Chpt 51-52
- Once he figured out all of this Enki/Asherah stuff, he went looking for someone who would pay for it and settled on L. Bob Rife, Lord of Bandwidth, owner of the fiberoptics monopoly, who at that time employed more programmers than anyone else on earth.†
Chpt 57-58
Definitions:
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(1)
(monopoly) complete control over a product, service, or resource -- usually by a single person, company, or group
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)