Monopoly

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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.”

3. isim 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. isim The market thus controlled.
5. isim The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the above manners.
6. özel isim A board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.

   “I was playing Monopoly with my friends at 12:00am last night.”