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oligopsonies

oligopsonies is the plural of oligopsony.

Meaning of oligopsony

Noun

oligopsony (plural oligopsonies)

  1. An economic condition in which a small number of buyers exert control over the market price of a commodity.
    • This policy combines a) replacing an oligopsony of school districts with a state monopsonist and b) an identical wage in each school district.2026 July, Tirza J. Angerhofer, Allan Collard-Wexler, Matthew C. Weinberg, “Oligopsony and Collective Bargaining”, in NBER Working Paper Series, number 35476, page 4

Questions about oligopsonies

What is oligopsonies the plural of?
Oligopsonies is the plural of oligopsony.

Words near oligopsonies in the dictionary

  1. oligoprogressive
  2. oligoprotection
  3. oligoprotective
  4. oligopseudorotaxane
  5. oligopseudorotaxanes
  6. oligopsonies
  7. oligopsonist
  8. oligopsonistic
  9. oligopsonists
  10. oligopsony
  11. oligopurine

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