oligopoly

名词 n.
/ɒlɪˈɡɒpəli/|/ɒlɪˈɡɒpli/    /ˌɑləˈɡɑpəli/|/ˌoʊ-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity. countable,uncountable
    — Because of the ease of collusion, particularly price fixing, duopolies and oligopolies easily produce outcomes as bad for the general public as outright monopolies.

词形变化

oligopolies plural

词源

PIE word
*h₃ligos
From oligo- (prefix meaning ‘few; several’) + -poly (suffix meaning ‘pertaining to the number of sellers in a market’), by analogy with monopoly.
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