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say it: ah-li-GAH-puh-lee
oligopoly is a noun meaning "(economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors". It is pronounced /ˌɑlɪˈɡɑpəli/ — ah-li-GAH-puh-lee. It carries one recorded sense.
(economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors
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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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for oligopoly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.