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Monopoly
proper noun 
  1. A board game in which players use play money to buy and trade property, properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.
Translations: 
  • German: Monopoly
  • Italian: Monopoli
     

monopoly
noun (monopolies)
  1. A situation in which solely one company exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
  2. An exclusive control over the trade or manufacture of a commodity
  3. A company dominating a market in one of the the above manners.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: monopolie
  • French: monopole
  • German: Monopol,
  • Italian: monopoli, monopolio
  • Spanish: monopolio
Etymology: monopolia, from Greek (monopolion), from (mon) + (polein), to sell<br>etystub

     
 
  

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