Definitions for Monopoly

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Monopoly mo·nop·o·ly

Spelling: [muh-nop-uh-lee]

IPA: /məˈnɒp ə li/

Monopoly is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in Monopoly (lmnooopy).

Definitions for Monopoly

noun

1. exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
2. an exclusive privilege to carry on a business, traffic, or service, granted by a government.
3. the exclusive possession or control of something.
4. something that is the subject of such control, as a commodity or service.
5. a company or group that has such control.
6. the market condition that exists when there is only one seller.
7. (initial capital letter) a board game in which a player attempts to gain a monopoly of real estate by advancing around the board and purchasing property, acquiring capital by collecting rent from other players whose pieces land on that property.

Origin of Monopoly

1525-35; Latin monopōlium Greek monopṓlion right of exclusive sale, equivalent to mono- mono- + pōl(eîn) to sell + -ion noun suffix

Examples for Monopoly

Mattson says the government bogarts this stuff, gathered at taxpayer expense, and maintains “a monopoly on the data.”

Ma wrote online, “Let the users decide who wins the game, not monopoly and power.”

Daring, courage, virtue—there is no monopoly of these things.

It reveals the fact that America has no monopoly of racial amalgamation.

Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.

These cases are part of the monopoly moment that we are in right now.

Don't think that you and a select few have a monopoly of all truth and wisdom.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom.

For nearly two thousand years, religious groups have held a monopoly on how to teach morals to young children.

Any deduction from this monopoly must bring down her rival in proportion to this deduction.