(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from 1900 to 1985, was obtained from official publication of the Administration of the State Monopolies or from unpublished material kindly provided by the same Administration.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.
Perfect
Definition:
(a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
(a.) Well informed; certain; sure.
(a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
(n.) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
(a.) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
(2) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
(3) In fact the deep femoral artery represents an exceptional and privileged route for anastomosis that is capable of replacing almost perfectly an obstructed superficial femoral artery and also in a more limited way femoro-popliteal arteries with extensive obstructions.
(4) In 9 other patients studied 2-7 years after transplantation the mean level of parathormone was lower than in the previous group but levels above normal were noted in half of the patients, some of which had perfect renal function and normal serum phosphorus.
(5) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(6) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(7) Also bear in mind that this request is just that, you are asking the club to place you on the transfer list, which they are perfectly entitled to reject.
(8) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(9) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(10) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(11) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.
(12) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
(13) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
(14) Michael Grade told ITV staff today that it was the "perfect time" to hand over to a new chief executive, who would inherit a "revitalised" broadcaster.
(15) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
(16) In most cases the fingerprints of duplicates of the same cell line remained perfectly preserved even after long-time passaging.
(17) Incorporation of prosthodontics are expected to depend not only on technical perfection.
(18) That idea may seem irrelevant to those of us who live a broadband lifestyle, but Justin Smith – who tracks the company's movements on the Inside Facebook blog – says that it makes perfect sense.
(19) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
(20) Fifty percent of the amino acids are perfectly conserved in all these proteins as well as in two homologous sequences from the distantly related wolffish.