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Doll vs Monopoly - What's the difference?

doll | monopoly |

As proper nouns the difference between doll and monopoly

is that doll is a diminutive of the female given name dorothy while monopoly is a board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.

doll

English

(wikipedia doll)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A toy in the form of a human.
  • (informal) Used to refer to or address a woman.
  • (Australia) A term of endearment (ie. darling).
  • Hyponyms

    * action figure

    Derived terms

    * dollhouse, doll's house * doll's pram * doll up * dolly * Russian doll * sex doll

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to be more beautiful of attractive. See also doll up.
  • See also

    * golliwog * puppet * teddy, teddy bear * ("doll" on Wikipedia) ----

    monopoly

    Noun

    (monopolies)
  • A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}
  • An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
  • The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.
  • (metonymy) The market thus controlled.
  • (metonymy) The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the the above manners.
  • Synonyms

    * (holder) monopolist

    Antonyms

    * monopsony

    Derived terms

    * monopolistic * monopolistically * monopolize, monopolization, monopolizer