What's the difference between interloping and monopoly?

Interloping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interlope

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Experiment 1, the definitions that Jones used with phonological interlopers created more TOTs even when no interlopers were presented.
  • (2) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
  • (3) They reported that interlopers that were phonologically related to the target word increased the incidence of TOTs and concluded that this supported Woodworth's position.
  • (4) Like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida in Iraq's previous violent emir, they are opportunistic interlopers whose vision is shared by the smallest of minorities.
  • (5) At one point the governor was interrupted by an interloper who began shouting a half-audible protest about the need to protect American workers.
  • (6) Hundreds of yellow shirts, and perhaps 10 or 20 curious interlopers from Islington.
  • (7) Woodworth (1929) argued that these interloper words both cause and sustain TOT states, whereas Brown and McNeill (1966) suggested that they are part of the process that leads to TOT resolution.
  • (8) Second, more TOT states occurred when the interloper was presented at the actual time of retrieval than when it was presented earlier.
  • (9) That particular prayer, it seems to me, an interloper that morning, sitting at the back, might be best addressed to the offices of the Equal Justice Initiative just down the road.
  • (10) When you dehumanise migrants, using vile imagery and language, scapegoating them for a nation’s ills and targeting them as job-stealing interlopers, you stoke prejudice and foment hatred.
  • (11) The subjects, 300 male and female junior college students, read vignettes which placed them at a party where their mates passionately kissed interlopers of varying status, and whose transgressions were, or were not, observed by others.
  • (12) Hundreds of furry little bodies ambled among us, looking curiously at the human interlopers.
  • (13) Harry Truman’s daughter Margaret, who wrote about the incident in her book The President’s House, a history of the White House, said: “Instead of brandishing a weapon, however, the interloper asked for the president’s autograph.” FDR gave the young man his autograph and the embarrassed secret service agents – whom the young man had to pass to enter the private area of the mansion – escorted him out of the building.
  • (14) Sorrell has become one of the best known businessmen in Britain but has never been able to shake off his own industry's view that he is something of an interloper: the Harvard-trained financier who ran roughshod over advertising.
  • (15) ‘I’m still for him’: Trump fans undaunted by string of campaign blunders Read more Attending a Serbian cultural festival over the weekend, he told the Washington Post: “Wisconsin Republicans are good at sniffing out interlopers.
  • (16) It could have been much worse than that, both for the interloper and for one of the drivers.
  • (17) It is clear that Mike Kane, a former teacher running for Labour, does not think political interlopers have much of a chance.
  • (18) Two opposite roles have been suggested for these interlopers.
  • (19) A study is reported in which participants were explicitly presented with interloper words.
  • (20) Reports don't sit on report-laden desks and outside professionals or agencies aren't treated as interlopers, but welcomed as partners.

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.

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