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Monopolizer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who monopolizes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently, competing companies have filed lawsuits alleging that the single-serve coffee giant – and its new brewer – are monopolizing the industry.
  • (2) This Article links the legal evolution of mandatory medical prescription since 1900 to the police-power's prohibition of alcohol and the opiates as well as to the self-interested monopolization of new drugs by physicians.
  • (3) The mass-media monopolize an important part of the lay public attention and intellectual energy and yet physicians do not seem very convinced that they must implicate themselves socially and participate in the education of the general public.
  • (4) In nonindustrial societies, women usually have more easy access to alcoholic beverages; in fact, they often monopolize production and predominate in the distribution system.
  • (5) The two net negative charges of P group form electric monopoles of a minor battery (myosin head).
  • (6) Amazon (disclosure: I own a small number of shares) sold many new bestsellers below cost, typically at $10 (OK, $9.99), as "loss leaders" and set off a panic among publishers, which worried that: a) the public was being conditioned to believe the price of all new books should be $10; and b) Amazon was going to monopolize the ebook market.
  • (7) However, the plumes of steam produced by the discharge have some highly specific features which are due to the fact that the discharge is usually produced using a monopole in an electrolyte.
  • (8) A lawsuit filed in federal court in Atlanta, Georgia, in February 1982 by two private ophthalmologists and seven prospective patients charges a group of academic physicians with attempting to monopolize radial keratotomy, a surgical procedure for correcting myopia, by labeling it experimental and urging restraint in its use.
  • (9) The relative phases of the applicators were adjusted by using an implanted monopole antenna connected to an HP network analyser.
  • (10) A description of the electrostatic interactions between cytochrome c and cytochrome c oxidase, based on the overall monopoles and overall dipoles of the two proteins, could not explain our data.
  • (11) In anaphase one set of chromatids migrated to the monopole leaving the scattered sister-chromatids behind.
  • (12) Ethics committees must be concerned with how they arrive at ethical decisions, guarding against political influence or individual monopolization.
  • (13) Exposures were in a monopole-above-ground radiation chamber with rats in Plexiglas cages.
  • (14) It examines clinical data to illustrate various ways a client can monopolize a group and how other group members react to this behavior.
  • (15) All of these applicators operate at 915 MHz and have similar heating patterns because they use the conventional monopole design and the catheters have been approximately scaled to the dimensions of each size applicator.
  • (16) These distinctive patterns in the distribution of the two classes of afferents can generally be accounted for on the following assumptions: (1) the commissural and associational afferents share a common cytochemical specificity; (2) they compete with each other for the limited number of synaptic sites available upon the proximal portions of the granule cells: (3) the granule cells are generated along two distinct morphogenetic gradients:from the temporal to the septal pole of the dentate gyrus, and from the tip of its dorsal (or external) to the tip of its ventral (internal) blade; and (4) the first fibers to arrive monopolize the majority of the available synaptic sites, and those that reach their target field later, synapse predominantly upon the last-formed granule cell dendrites.
  • (17) The extension of the monopole-dipole approach to other cytochrome-cytochrome electron transfer reactions is discussed.
  • (18) Review of the theoretical perspectives of Cartwright, Lazarsfeld and Merton, and Katz suggests that effective uses of mass media for drug abuse prevention must ensure adequate dissemination, maximize positive attention by the target audience (selectivity), encourage positive interpersonal communication, and maximize the principles of monopolization, canalization, and supplementation.
  • (19) The New Democrats – led by bearded, experienced Thomas Mulcair – have emulated Tony Blair’s New Labour by jettisoning their old-school socialist baggage and veering onto the centre-left terrain previously monopolized by the Liberals.
  • (20) A practical procedure for the precise determination of electrostatic charges, which are evaluated by fitting the rigorous quantum mechanical molecular electrostatic potential to a monopole-monopole expression, is presented.

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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