Monopoly

Definition

monopoly /mǝ'nɒpǝli / n ၁။ ( commerce ) (က) ~ (in/on sth) (ကုန္သြယ္မႈတြင္) လက္ဝါးႀကီးအုပ္ျခင္း၊ တစ္ဦး တည္း ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္မႈစနစ္။ gain / hold/secure a monopoly. (ခ) တစ္ဦးတည္း ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ထားေသာ ကုန္ပစၥည္း၊ ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈ။ In some countries tobacco is a government monopoly. Compare DUOPOLY ၂။ (usu sing ) ~ in/of/on sth တစ္ဦးတည္းမူပိုင္။ ေမာင္ပိုင္စီးျခင္း။ A good education should not be the monopoly of the rich. ❍ You can't have a complete monopoly of the car—I need to use it occasionally. ❏ monopolist /-lÇst / n တစ္ဦးတည္းခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ခြင့္ ရရိွသူ(သို႔) ကုမၸဏီ။ ❏ monopolistic /mǝnɒpǝ'lÇstÇk / adj တစ္ဦးတည္း ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ ထားလိုေသာ။ လက္ဝါးႀကီးအုပ္ေသာ။ ေမာင္ပိုင္စီးေသာ။ monopolistic practices.

Examples

1. It is the government’s intention to break up all monopolies.
2. [a virtual/near monopoly] : The company has a virtual monopoly on tea sales.
3. [enjoy/exercise/have/hold a monopoly] : He did not enjoy an absolute monopoly.
4. [have a monopoly on] : Celebrities don’t have a monopoly on being interesting.