All 8 Uses

monopoly
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The Crying of Lot 49
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Delivering the mail is a government monopoly.†
Chpt 3 *
Duke Angelo, and masquerading as a special courier of the Thurn and Taxis family, who at the time held a postal monopoly throughout most of the Holy Roman Empire.†
Chpt 3
Among these was Leonard I, Baron of Taxis, Gentleman of the Emperor's Privy Chamber and Baron of Buysinghen, the hereditary Grand Master of the Post for the Low Countries, and executor of the Thurn and Taxis monopoly.†
Chpt 6
But it had been a time of great instability for the Thurn and Taxis monopoly.†
Chpt 6
The postal monopoly belonged to Ohain by right of conquest, and Ohain belonged to Tristero by right of blood.†
Chpt 6
The actual locus of power in the monopoly remained uncertain until 1650, when the next male heir, Lamoral Il-Claude-Francis, took over.†
Chpt 6
Whatever it is, it has the power to murder their riders, send landslides thundering across their roads, by extension bring into being new local competition and presently even state postal monopolies; disintegrate their Empire.†
Chpt 6
So much that, by 1795, it is even suggested that Tristero has staged the entire French Revolution, just for an excuse to issue the Proclamation of 9th Frimaire, An III, ratifying the end of the Thurn and Taxis postal monopoly in France and the Lowlands.†
Chpt 6

Definitions:

(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)