monopolistic control

collocation in English

meaningsofmonopolisticandcontrol

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monopolistic
adjective
uk
/məˌnɒp.əlˈɪs.tɪk/us
/məˌnɑː.pəlˈɪs.tɪk/
having or trying to have complete control of something, especially an area of business, so that others have ...
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control
noun
uk
/kənˈtrəʊl/us
/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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(Definition ofmonopolisticandcontrolfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Over the past seventy years, the forest estate has passed from monopoly to oligopoly ownership and back to (state)monopolisticcontrol.
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Here lies the prime concern of the national ruling elites to preserve a command state system: through theirmonopolisticcontrolover resources, they retain their economic and political dominance.
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It was not a case of "monopolisticcontrol".
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First, themonopolisticcontrolin production and distribution of nets and cordage plays a very big part in this alarming increased cost.
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It is giving a greater and moremonopolisticcontrolof their financial destiny than in days gone by.
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It does not matter who is the owner; it is the centralised,monopolisticcontrolthat always makes for these evil results which have been described.
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In some cases they have almost amonopolisticcontrolof large sections of the industry.
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There is a wealth of difference between co-ordination andmonopolisticcontrol.
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Well, why are we inhibited from fosteringmonopolisticcontrol?
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Although the basic industries are so organised that there might bemonopolisticcontrol, a number of monopolies is much less dangerous than a single monopoly.
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These are the three key points for the exercise of a wholesome influence on public opinion, and their independence ofmonopolisticcontrolis an indispensable safeguard for democratic institutions.
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For them, themonopolisticcontrolof the media is a means of achieving political power, denying the diversity of express which is essential to a free society.
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White planters used credit to gainmonopolisticcontrolof agricultural production.
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For decades his company exerted an essentiallymonopolisticcontrolover the market.
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A third economic function is themonopolisticcontrolof trade.
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The opportunity before us in the beginning of the 1980s is to start a bold new experiment in broadcasting that is free of monopolistic controls.
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From the days of the earliest monetarised civilisations, monopolistic controls of monetary systems have benefited the social and political elites.
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