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Antonyms for monopoly

Grammar : Noun
Spell : muh-nop-uh-lee
Phonetic Transcription : məˈnɒp ə li

Definition of monopoly

Origin :
  • "exclusive control of a commodity or trade," 1530s, from Latin monopolium, from Greek monopolion "right of exclusive sale," from mono- + polein "to sell," from PIE root *pel- (5) "to sell" (cf. Sanskrit panate "barters, purchases," Lithuanian pelnas "gain," Old Church Slavonic splenu, Russian polon "prey, booty," Old Norse falr, Dutch veil, German feil "for sale, venal").
  • Alternative form monopole (1540s, from the Old French form of the word) was common in 16c. The popular board game, invented by Charles Darrow, is from 1935. Monopoly money "unreal currency" is attested from 1972, in reference to the paper used in the game.
  • noun something held, owned exclusively
Example sentences :
  • It reveals the fact that America has no monopoly of racial amalgamation.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Daring, courage, virtue—there is no monopoly of these things.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • Any deduction from this monopoly must bring down her rival in proportion to this deduction.
  • Extract from : « Patrick Henry » by Moses Coit Tyler
  • Don't think that you and a select few have a monopoly of all truth and wisdom.
  • Extract from : « Three Addresses to Girls at School » by James Maurice Wilson
  • Essex had thus derived a great revenue from his monopoly of wines.
  • Extract from : « Queen Elizabeth » by Jacob Abbott
  • There is a monopoly on this and each licensee has to agree not to sell it.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • That brutal spirit of monopoly is still abroad and uncurbed.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 » by Various
  • They have almost a monopoly as to burning corpses and handling all dead bodies.
  • Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland
  • A monopoly will give us settled prices and control of the flowage.
  • Extract from : « Joan of Arc of the North Woods » by Holman Day

Synonyms for monopoly

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