commercial monopoly
noun[C]
COMMERCE,ECONOMICSukusasituationin which thepriceof aproductorserviceiscontrolledby onepersonorcompany:
Acommercialmonopolyis never good fortrade.
Examplesofcommercial monopoly
commercial monopoly
The governor went as far as eliminating any group that may threaten his intentions of creating acommercialmonopoly.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He favoured acommercialmonopolyas a way of meeting the expenses of colonization; for him, freedom of trade led only to anarchy, and produced nothing stable.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Part 2 analyzes the forces that motivated the construction of thecommercialmonopoly.
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They protectcommercialmonopolyinstead of intellectual property.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Their view is that acommercialmonopolyis bad only when it has been proved to be so.
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In these ways, freedom, competition, all the slogans under which this campaign was launched, will be thrown overboard in the interests of acommercialmonopoly.
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We find, as our own knowledge bears out, that acommercialmonopolyin this country, in the hands of three men, now dominates commercial television.
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That, first, would do away with thecommercialmonopoly.
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It was a quite intolerantcommercialmonopolywhich they had instituted, but from the commercial point of view it was administered with great intelligence.
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Are we satisfied, in maintaining the presentcommercialmonopoly?
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