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monopoly
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not have a monopoly on something
if someone does not have a monopoly on something, they are not the only person who has that thing You don't have a monopoly on suffering, you know. Other people have problems too.
See also: have

monopoly money

money that seems to have little or no value
Usage notes: Monopoly is the trademark for a game in which you buy property with pretend money
Win or lose this contract, it's all monopoly money to him.
See also: money
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A standard way of doing so is based on a model of price setting by monopolistically competitive firms (Gali and Gertler 1999).
The New Keynesian Phillips Curve and lagged inflation: a case of ... by Hall, Stephen G.; Hondroyiannis, George; Swamy, P.A.V.B.; Tavlas, G.S. / Southern Economic Journal
Traditionally, Chinese water supply industry had been operated monopolistically by the government, let alone market competition, which reflected in following two aspects: there was no clear line between the government and the enterprises.
Research Report of Chinese Urban Water Supply Industry, 2009 by Kate Chen / Agricultural industry community
In their model, they explore "how plant size, the number of plants, the degree of excess capacity, and prices in the monopolistically competitive sector depend upon the relative size of domestic and foreign markets and relative factor endowment differentials" (ibid.
Intra-industry trade and development: revisiting theory, measurement ... by Das, Gouranga G. / Indian Journal of Economics and Business
 
 
 
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