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Monopolistic   /mənˌɑpəlˈɪstɪk/   Listen
Monopolistic

adjective
1.
Having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant.





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"Monopolistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... cover emergencies, nor collected so wastefully. The peasants of France were crushed by feudal dues, tithes, and royal taxes. The bourgeoisie were angered by the income tax, by the indirect taxes, by the tolls and internal customs, and by the monopolistic privileges which the king sold to his favorites. How long the unprivileged classes would bear the burden of taxation, while the nobles and clergy were almost free, no one could tell; but signs of discontent were ...
— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes
... be confused with a trust in the sense of a monopolistic enterprise, with which it has no connection except by mere verbal accident, through ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter
... subtility, delicacy, and refinement, which approximate it to sentimental love, though a critical analysis always reveals the difference. The two best instances I know of occur in Tibullus and Terence. Tibullus, in one of his finest poems (IV., 13), expresses the monopolistic wish that his favorite might seem beautiful to him only, displeasing all others, for then he would be safe from all rivalry; then he might live happy in forest solitudes, and she alone would be to him ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck


Words linked to "Monopolistic" :   monopoly, noncompetitive


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