monopolisticadj.

1826 Examiner 17 Sept. 608/2 Just published... Containing the most essential Clauses in the recent Haileybury College Suspension Bill; a very late but extraordinary monopolistic Regulation from the India House [etc.]

1859 M. A. Richter Internal Relations of Cities of Union 155 The system of classifying the trades, and arming them with monopolistic privileges,..follows next.

1892 Nation (N.Y.) 25 Aug. 138/1 The spirit of trades unionism is essentially monopolistic and prescriptive.

1938 E. W. Shanahan Mod. Econ. Organisation x. 235 The movement towards combination..has been successful in establishing monopolistic enterprises.

1962 Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 10/2 The Monopolies Commission can report on monopolistic practices referred to it.

1998 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 75 There were concerns expressed that two of Britain's largest powerboat builders would coalesce into a single monopolistic giant.

1908 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 16 363 Astor's company operated..with sufficiently large resources to enable it to employ against its rivals every device known to monopolistic competition.

1933 E. H. Chamberlin Theory Monopol. Competition iv. 69 Monopolistic competition..concerns itself not only with the problem of an individual equilibrium (the ordinary theory of monopoly), but also with that of a group equilibrium (the adjustment of economic forces within a group of competing monopolists, ordinarily regarded merely as a group of competitors).

1942 W. B. Taylor Financial Policies Business Enterprise xxxi. 750 The warp and woof of business enterprise are interwoven with ever-changing threads of competition and monopoly; and when both are found co-existing in a given enterprise, that business is said to be carrying on its functions under conditions of monopolistic competition.

1996 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 34 2287/2 A dynamic general equilibrium model is constructed with the introduction of monopolistic competition and nominal price rigidity.