Monopoly vs Playmaster - What's the difference?
monopoly | playmaster |
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.
An electronic device that keeps track of tokens, properties]] and [[die, dice rolls, and initiates auctions and mortgages, in the game Monopoly .
As a proper noun monopoly
is a board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.As a noun playmaster is
an electronic device that keeps track of tokens, properties]] and [[die|dice rolls, and initiates auctions and mortgages, in the game monopoly .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.}}