monopolistic
/mənɒp(ə)ˈlɪstɪk
/adjective
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...
- The company is under investigation by the Department of Justice for possible monopolistic business practices.
- The reciprocal obligations of aristocratic gift exchange neutralized the monopolistic imperatives of the closed shop.
- We attributed the Great Depression to monopolistic restraints.
Derivatives
monopolistically
- Assume that the number of laborers and the number of monopolistically competitive firms is divided evenly between the regions.
- Agglomeration is taken to mean that more monopolistically competitive firms are located in one region than in another.
- This view of monopoly could reduce logically to the notion that each and every unit of everyone's property stock is owned "monopolistically."