Definition of monopolistic in English:
monopolistic
adjective mənɒp(ə)ˈlɪstɪkməˌnɑpəˈlɪstɪk
Relating to a person or business that has exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
the investigation into monopolistic practices among supermarkets
Example sentencesExamples
- The reciprocal obligations of aristocratic gift exchange neutralized the monopolistic imperatives of the closed shop.
- The fact that the import duty has insulated the domestic market provides domestic producers with the opportunity to build up a monopolistic scheme.
- Restrictions on these markets allow them to remain monopolistic.
- He criticized this conclusion on the grounds that the existence of monopolistic conditions was the essential explanation of discriminatory pricing.
- Price transparency exposes monopolistic or isolated markets to competition.
- This implies a monopolistic market structure in fertilizer production, which affects the way in which the market operates.
- We attributed the Great Depression to monopolistic restraints.
- It was a rather interesting problem, regarding whether it was competitive or monopolistic to craft a certain rule.
- The company is under investigation by the Department of Justice for possible monopolistic business practices.
- Also, he mentioned the difficulties of deciding whether monopolistic or competitive conditions tended to prevail in a given case.
Derivatives
adverb -ˈlɪstɪk(ə)li
Agglomeration is taken to mean that more monopolistically competitive firms are located in one region than in another.
Example sentencesExamples
- The monopolistically determined price after the imposition of the tax could stay the same, rise by more than the amount of the tax, or rise by less.
- This view of monopoly could reduce logically to the notion that each and every unit of everyone's property stock is owned "monopolistically."
- The presumption among economists that money must be supplied monopolistically by a central authority is widespread.
- Assume that the number of laborers and the number of monopolistically competitive firms is divided evenly between the regions.
Definition of monopolistic in US English:
monopolistic
adjectiveməˌnɑpəˈlɪstɪkməˌnäpəˈlistik
Relating to a person or business that has exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
the investigation into monopolistic practices among supermarkets
Example sentencesExamples
- This implies a monopolistic market structure in fertilizer production, which affects the way in which the market operates.
- We attributed the Great Depression to monopolistic restraints.
- It was a rather interesting problem, regarding whether it was competitive or monopolistic to craft a certain rule.
- Also, he mentioned the difficulties of deciding whether monopolistic or competitive conditions tended to prevail in a given case.
- The reciprocal obligations of aristocratic gift exchange neutralized the monopolistic imperatives of the closed shop.
- He criticized this conclusion on the grounds that the existence of monopolistic conditions was the essential explanation of discriminatory pricing.
- The fact that the import duty has insulated the domestic market provides domestic producers with the opportunity to build up a monopolistic scheme.
- Restrictions on these markets allow them to remain monopolistic.
- Price transparency exposes monopolistic or isolated markets to competition.
- The company is under investigation by the Department of Justice for possible monopolistic business practices.