monopoly

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /məˈnɒpəli/    美 /məˈnɑpəli/|/məˈnɔpəli/|/məˈnɒpəli/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
    — The sale of the leaves and roots was a Government monopoly, and from it the Kings of Kôr derived a large proportion of their private revenue.
  2. An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
    — A land monopoly renders its holder(s) nearly almighty in an agricultural society.
    Vladimir Lenin
  3. The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.
    — Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift.
  4. The market thus controlled. metonymically
  5. The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the above manners. metonymically

词形变化

monopolies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antimonopoly monopolistic monopolistically monopolize monopolization monopolizer monopolylike natural monopoly pigopoly premonopoly promonopoly semimonopoly

词源

From Latin monopōlium, from Ancient Greek μονοπώλιον (monopṓlion, “a right of exclusive sale”), from μόνος (mónos, “sole”) + πωλέω (pōléō, “to barter, sell”). By surface analysis, mono- + -poly.
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