What's the difference between holder and monopoly?

Holder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, holds.
  • (n.) One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.
  • (n.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (3) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
  • (4) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
  • (5) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
  • (6) The US media reported Holder was sickened by what he read in Helgerson's report.
  • (7) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
  • (8) Features of this spectrometer which make it more suitable than the previously employed scintillation spectrometers for the observation of granulocyte and other chemiluminescent systems include; (1) the ability to measure CL immediately upon reaction initiation; (2) simplicity of photomultiplier tube exchange; and (3) built-in optical filter holders for spectral analysis.
  • (9) The contribution of the holder to the continuum spectrum is consistent with theoretical predictions.
  • (10) Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, wrote to the chairman of the Commons education select committee, Graham Stuart, the Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness, on Friday, to demand a parliamentary inquiry to restore confidence in the exam system.
  • (11) The unexpected announcement by Eric Holder, the attorney general, contradicts Utah’s refusal to recognise some 1,300 same-sex marriages that were licensed during a brief window in December when a federal judge ruled the state’s ban was unconstitutional .
  • (12) The assembly consists of an electrode holder and a fixed support (implanted stereotaxically) which is cemented to the rat skull.
  • (13) This relationship identifies the surgical needle holder that can be used with surgical needles without deformation.
  • (14) It can’t be worse than what’s on there already,” says Holder.
  • (15) I tell you very frankly, no Iraqi power can take action on this.” Over the past four months, some of Iraq’s top office holders, led by prime minister Haider al-Abadi, have tried to do just that.
  • (16) The bacteriological quality of pooled human milk donated to the Oxford milk bank was analysed and the effects on bacteriology of sterilisation of the milk-collecting vessels in the home with hypochlorite solution and of Holder pasteurisation in a purpose-built human-milk pasteuriser were studied.
  • (17) Royal Bank of Scotland Group has promised that its account holders whose transactions were frozen by a computer glitch will be compensated, but thousands of customers of other banks may find themselves out of pocket because of the six-day disruption.
  • (18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
  • (19) News that gave me a teeny bit of hope for 21st century politics: attorney general Eric Holder and the Department of Justice filed suit against a North Carolina voting law.
  • (20) "They've got to put some morale back into the company," William Smith, founder of SAM Advisers who is a long-term holder of Citigroup shares, told Bloomberg News in an interview advocating a three-way split.

Monopoly


Definition:

  • (n.) The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.
  • (n.) Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land.
  • (n.) The commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
  • (2) In June 2012 we got our first elected president, and, in his first year in office, the state's monopoly on violence was broken.
  • (3) The data on tobacco consumption, from 1900 to 1985, was obtained from official publication of the Administration of the State Monopolies or from unpublished material kindly provided by the same Administration.
  • (4) As psychiatry belongs to the system, it received the monopoly of access to the symbolic and mental dimension which is included in the disorders.
  • (5) • The Catholic church's near monopoly of influence in education means that the ultimate power in each school is the local Catholic bishop.
  • (6) And they say the Trans-Pacific deal will do big favours for pharmaceutical companies and other US corporations, for instance, by lengthening copyright protections and the monopoly period for newly developed drugs.
  • (7) As his recent study on the retailer points out, when it comes to digital distribution of entertainment, Amazon is very far from being a monopoly.
  • (8) "I don't ... believe that the organisation ever seeks to behave in anything but the most socially responsible way – but monopolies will always act in their own best interests, and those interests may not coincide with those of the rest of us.
  • (9) The chief executive of Europe's largest newspaper publisher has accused Google of abusing a monopoly position in the digital economy to discriminate against competitors and build up a "superstate".
  • (10) No longer monopolies or oligopolies, the barrier to entry to their kingdom and business reduced to an inch, they simply cannot maintain their old scale, the size and margins that the City demanded.
  • (11) "We had a second open access company, Wrexham and Shropshire, and that ran a popular service which was hampered by monopoly rights that Virgin have enjoyed.
  • (12) Despite a near monopoly in many towns, HMV stores were seeing sales slump year after year, even at paper-thin margins.
  • (13) Fortune Magazine predicted that “ the apparent M-Pesa monopoly may be set to crumble ”, indicating that the new licensing regime could open up the market long dominated by Safaricom.
  • (14) And it’s partly about tailoring use of data, so I can choose what apps and systems I share my information with, rather than giving one firm a monopoly over where my vital statistics are sent and analysed.
  • (15) The government doesn’t have a monopoly on patriotism, Shorten says.
  • (16) Despite the recent announcement of an EU antitrust case against Google , which is accused of unfairly using its monopoly in search to boost its online shopping product, the paper says that competition law isn’t the right way to enforce fairness, since the cases are “lengthy and expensive”.
  • (17) 3.47pm BST Greece to sell gambling stake; maybe lease islands The Greek privatisation office has announced that it will start the process of selling its 29% stake in OPAP , the state gambling monopoly.
  • (18) David Cameron will herald new moves to open up public services to private providers when he hails the role of “insurgent companies” and speaks of the benefit of “breaking state monopolies”.
  • (19) "Telecoms is a very good example: for a long time, we had a government monopoly, which stifled innovation, and the service was poor.
  • (20) It will promote an environment that is consistent with effective competition; it will challenge abusive monopoly behaviour, take steps to promote competition where customers are being disadvantaged (for instance, in retail banking) and promote long-term investment rather than the casino capitalism that has disadvantaged the UK’s economy and social cohesion.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the BBC’s Newsnight programme Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, forgets the name of the Labour’s small businesses leader, Bill Thomas.