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Plural of monopoly

regular plural

The plural of monopoly is monopolies.

Forms of monopoly

Singularmonopoly /məˈnɒpəli/
Pluralmonopolies
Countablecountable

Monopolies in a sentence

  • Ciudadanos is keen on fighting monopolies and on vigorous Scandinavian-style labour reforms to help the unemployed retrain and find jobs.2018 February 10, “Spain’s centrist Ciudadanos are on the march”, in The Economist, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
  • Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift.
  • Monopolies engaging in profit maximization will produce at the quantity where its marginal revenue equals marginal cost.From the entry maximization
  • Because of the ease of collusion, particularly price fixing, duopolies and oligopolies easily produce outcomes as bad for the general public as outright monopolies.From the entry oligopoly
  • Structural racism and its monopolies have "boxed and locked” Black people.2000, Claud Anderson, PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America, page 25. From the entry box and lock

Meaning of monopoly

  1. noun A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
  2. noun An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
  3. noun The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.

Full definition of monopoly

Questions about the plural of monopoly

What is the plural of monopoly?
The plural of monopoly is monopolies.
Is monopoly countable?
Monopoly is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monopoly (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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