oligopoly

1. 1.

   (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

   Broadermarket

   economics

Other forms of oligopoly

plural

oligopolies·

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 oligopoly

What does oligopoly mean?

oligopoly means "(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".

How many syllables are in oligopoly?

oligopoly has 5 syllables: o-li-go-po-ly. The stress falls on "go". In IPA it is /ˌɑlɪˈɡɑpəli/.

Is oligopoly a common word?

oligopoly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.