oligopoly

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ol·i·gop·o·ly | \ ˌä-lə-ˈgä-pə-lē

, ˌō- \

Definition of oligopoly

: a market situation in which each of a few producers affects but does not control the market

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Other Words from oligopoly

oligopolist \ ˌä-lə-ˈgä-pə-list

, ˌō- \ noun

oligopolistic \ ˌä-lə-ˌgä-pə-ˈli-stik

, ˌō- \ adjective

Examples of oligopoly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In 2016, Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, itself a merger of French and American companies, created today’s three-giant oligopoly. — Stu Woo, WSJ, 26 May 2021 Monopoly or oligopoly seems to be the order of the day. — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 20 May 2021 The party finished third in the poll -- which ended five years under a junta -- on a platform that included rewriting the current constitution, curbing the army’s influence and breaking up oligopolies. — Suttinee Yuvejwattana, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020 But a casual observer still might not consider the housing market as an oligopoly. — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019 Visa signed the Roundtable letter championing customers, but is part of a payments oligopoly. — The Economist, 26 Dec. 2019 This is precisely the kind of oligopoly that the antitrust laws were meant to prevent. — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019 Being the biggest player in a deeply entrenched payments oligopoly turns out to be fabulously lucrative. — The Economist, 19 Mar. 2020 The cost of reliably linking tokens to real assets inevitably drives the market towards consolidation, oligopoly and even monopoly. — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2020

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