monopoly

1. 1.

   (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller

   “a monopoly on silver”

   “when you have a monopoly you can ask any price you like”

   Broadermarket

   Narrowercorner

   economics

2. 2.

   exclusive control or possession of something

   “They have no monopoly on intelligence”

   Broaderdominance
3. 3.

   a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die

   Broaderboard game

   trademark

Other forms of monopoly

plural

monopolies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about monopoly

What does monopoly mean?

monopoly means "(economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in monopoly?

monopoly has 4 syllables: mo-no-po-ly. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /məˈnɑpəli/.

Is monopoly a common word?

monopoly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.