Doll vs Monopoly - What's the difference?
doll | monopoly |
A toy in the form of a human.
(informal) Used to refer to or address a woman.
(Australia) A term of endearment (ie. darling).
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.
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, title= 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.
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)Hyponyms
* action figureDerived terms
* dollhouse, doll's house * doll's pram * doll up * dolly * Russian doll * sex dollSee also
* golliwog * puppet * teddy, teddy bear * ("doll" on Wikipedia) ----monopoly
English
(wikipedia monopoly)Noun
(monopolies)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.}}