noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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guaranteed
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At the same time it amended the republic's constitution to abolish the guaranteed Communist Party monopoly of power.
local
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It might be thought of as over-reacting but the development of local monopolies and cartels is just conceivable.
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As capital has become more powerful, it has also sought to dissolve other local monopolies that have hitherto been immune.
natural
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Therefore the possibility of there being a natural monopoly is intimately related to the assumptions regarding potential entrant behaviour.
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First, they are related to subadditivity - the question of whether or not the industry is a natural monopoly .
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This chapter examines these questions from a theoretical standpoint within the framework of natural monopoly industries.
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Therefore, in such situations natural monopolies will be sustainable for many different prices.
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The problems of choosing an appropriate framework for any privatised natural monopoly have already been considered.
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Our concern essentially is with the first of these possibilities, the case of natural monopoly - no competition is possible.
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The purpose of these calculations has been to demonstrate that rising average cost is consistent with natural monopoly .
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Particularly important was the need to have natural monopolies in public ownership.
near
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Bureaucracies need to have a near monopoly of political and administrative information. 6.
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Catherine spoke with unusual authority at a time when men held a near monopoly on religious power in the church.
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Until this time, Episcopalians enjoyed a near monopoly south of Maryland.
private
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Selling state assets itself will bring little competition to over-centralised economies, if private monopolies replace state ones.
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If they did work and were transferred to anyone, that person would have a private monopoly .
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Prices fixed by private monopolies such as these would be no truer a reflection of the market than those fixed by the state.
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In such cases, governments can grant a private monopoly and regulate its prices, or they can create a public monopoly.
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Yet the current Government has concentrated instead on converting public into private monopolies .
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What happened in the water industry, for example, was that a public monopoly was turned into a private monopoly.
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In many cases private monopolies have replaced the public sector, resulting in higher prices and poorer service.
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Mr. Eadie Will the Prime Minister consider the abolition of standing charges to pensioners by the private monopolies ?
public
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Within the state sector, the statutory public monopoly of electricity supply and express delivery service has been ended.
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In such cases, governments can grant a private monopoly and regulate its prices, or they can create a public monopoly.
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The Energy Act abolished the public sector's monopoly and allowed private companies to generate electricity as a main business.
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In contrast, public monopolies that are thrust fully into competition have little choice but to please their customers.
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Yet the current Government has concentrated instead on converting public into private monopolies .
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Competition that is structured carefully, however, can produce more equitable results than service delivery by a public monopoly .
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What happened in the water industry, for example, was that a public monopoly was turned into a private monopoly.
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This did indeed run counter to the original principle of a benign public monopoly .
statutory
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Within the state sector, the statutory public monopoly of electricity supply and express delivery service has been ended.
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It is also noteworthy that Hill was vehemently opposed to the statutory monopoly .
virtual
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Microsoft, which has had a virtual monopoly , has managed 53 % a year.
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Fan has said Citic supports challenging the virtual monopolies enjoyed by Cathay and Telecom.
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It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits.
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He thought they could be beaten-that their virtual monopoly of the running shoe market could be overthrown.
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In many cases a virtual monopoly service has been involved and the direct target has been the public.
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Since the boycott of eastern goods was not totally effective, it enabled Gentile merchants to establish a virtual monopoly in commerce.
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The state's former virtual monopoly of enterprises was reduced with the expansion of the private sector.
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Mr O'Neill ran Alcoa, a virtual aluminium monopoly .
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capital
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This fusion is cemented by the dominant role of monopoly capital in financing and influencing non-communist political parties and the mass media.
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The approach also assumes. without showing what it is, that monopoly capital has a single and unitary purpose and goal.
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Second, public bureaus come to be organized in a monopolistic and centralized fashion to match the organization of monopoly capital .
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Working-class political parties also came to serve a useful integrative function for monopoly capital .
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Neither is it acceptable to see the state as entirely dependent on monopoly capital as some Marxists still suggest.
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It would have suited the economic interests of monopoly capital if the plan had proposed a high rate of growth.
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Of course, with the development of international monopoly capital and multinational companies, additional sources of power have been brought into play.
capitalism
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Popular culture instead reproduced essentially passive individuals as labour power for monopoly capitalism .
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The whole net of relationships between community and subculture, class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape.
control
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Greenpeace is deeply concerned that this development will lead to monopoly control over genetic resources and an even greater dependence on herbicides.
position
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The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position .
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Those suppliers of heavy materials and goods will easily survive, because they have a monopoly position .
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Playing on the defense are telephone companies and cable television companies, providers that have enjoyed monopoly positions for decades.
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This monopoly position is therefore totally beyond criticism.
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There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position .
power
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The removal of tariffs can reduce monopoly power within the home country by increasing the possible sources of supply.
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When this measure is larger than one, which happens in the presence of monopoly power , average revenue declines with output.
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This excess of price over both marginal revenue and marginal cost is a convenient measure of the firm's monopoly power .
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Also, when profits are driven down to zero, the degree of monopoly power equals the degree of economies of scale.
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How should we measure the social cost of monopoly power and inefficient resource allocation?
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In this regard, the privatization strategy was criticized as merely transferring monopoly power from the public to the private sector.
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We begin with a more general discussion of all forms of imperfect competition and monopoly power .
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These of course are the mergers most relevant to the formation of even larger companies with potential monopoly power .
profit
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This can result in higher outputs, lower prices and the reduction of monopoly profits .
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The large dividends paid by the more successful companies incorporated a substantial element of monopoly profit .
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But rather than extract monopoly profits , firms can enjoy their market power by operating with higher costs so being x -inefficient.
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In passing, it is worth remarking that the ultimate recipients of monopoly profits are the monopolist's shareholders.
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If it falls also on monopoly profits , the total yield of the tax is.
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With the simple constant mark-up pricing supposed, the tax on monopoly profit makes no difference.
situation
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We had grown up with a monopoly situation and there was no semblance of looking outside.
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But the main use of this act in relation to present concerns is regarding exploitation of monopoly situations .
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It is not the payment of interest at exorbitant rates and so we are not dealing necessarily with a monopoly situation .
state
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There was little or no attempt to denationalize the giant state monopolies thereafter.
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But this will entail major political concessions by the government, including the surrender of the state monopoly over electronic media.
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The ending of state monopolies in the insurance, alcohol, gas and electricity sectors was also proposed.
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But they will still be independent of a powerful state monopoly and monolith.
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However, the state monopoly of foreign trade was to become of critical importance later on.
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In broadcasting - not a priority issue for the General - the state monopoly of both transmissions and programming was reaffirmed.
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On 23 June the state monopoly of radio and television was re-established.
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Tax concessions for new companies and the end of the state monopoly on import-export trade were also announced.
supplier
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For a time at least the Bank as monopoly supplier can charge any rate it chooses.
telephone
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Hundreds of state-owned companies, from the telephone monopoly to steel foundries, have been sold in the past decade.
television
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After decades of dreary state-run television monopolies , most of these markets are starting to open up to private competitors.
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break
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It is my view that the Duty Solicitor scheme was set up by certain parties to break this monopoly .
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A reformed Competition Commission will be able to break up monopolies , free from interference from ministers.
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We will encourage greater competition in the banking sector. Break up monopolies .
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Aethelbald's accession broke the monopoly of royal power in Mercia by Penda and his descendants which had lasted over seventy years.
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James met with similar intransigence when he attempted to use his dispensing power to break the Anglican monopoly over education.
claim
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The world is now parcelled up in independent States which claim a monopoly in the employment of nationalism.
create
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He fears this would merely create a private-sector monopoly and would not improve the service.
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In such cases, governments can grant a private monopoly and regulate its prices, or they can create a public monopoly.
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Last May it directed member states to do away with licensing rules like Britain's, which create import monopolies .
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He created two competing monopolies which are causing considerable unrest within the industry.
enjoy
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When an industry is imperfectly competitive we say that each firm in the industry enjoys a degree of monopoly power.
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Until this time, Episcopalians enjoyed a near monopoly south of Maryland.
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Class politics do not, in any case, enjoy a monopoly of political radicalism.
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Playing on the defense are telephone companies and cable television companies, providers that have enjoyed monopoly positions for decades.
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We enjoyed a monopoly in this trade, but unfortunately for those successful in the boom, it couldn't last for ever.
grant
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It did both under its previous government-\#granted monopoly .
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In such cases, governments can grant a private monopoly and regulate its prices, or they can create a public monopoly.
hold
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One smaller Catalan industry, cork, was more consistent in its growth because it held a monopoly of raw material.
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Catherine spoke with unusual authority at a time when men held a near monopoly on religious power in the church.
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But it does not necessarily hold these monopoly rights for all time.
lose
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It seems Mr Zaitsev may be about to lose his monopoly on fame.
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The experiment a success, evolution suddenly lost its monopoly over the power to produce new species.
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Solicitors will lose their monopoly on applying for grants of probate to deal with wills.
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Telmex loses its monopoly over long-distance telephone service on Jan. 1.
maintain
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The first is that it maintain a monopoly of economic power.
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All the artificial constraints of maintaining a regulated monopoly mean that it is not in the best interests of the consumer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is not good for consumers if one company has a monopoly in any area of trade.
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It was not easy to persuade the monarchy to let go of its monopoly of power.
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the De Beers diamond monopoly
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Within a few years, the company had a virtual monopoly over all trade with India.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After decades of dreary state-run television monopolies, most of these markets are starting to open up to private competitors.
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Because the state tried to enforce a monopoly on ideas, intellectuals were both at great risk and terrifically influential.
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In contrast, public monopolies that are thrust fully into competition have little choice but to please their customers.
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It is poor families who are usually stuck with the worst consequences of school monopoly and bureaucratization.
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Lewie and his monopoly were gone, a loss of at least a few hundred million dollars more.
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Microsoft, which has had a virtual monopoly , has managed 53 % a year.
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Tax concessions for new companies and the end of the state monopoly on import-export trade were also announced.