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# monopoly

«monopoly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Complete control of a product or service by one company…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a monopoly, monopolies); proper noun (Monopoly — a board game)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Complete control of a product or service by one company or person, so that nobody else sells it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#m1)

2) (Monopoly) A board game where players buy streets and houses with toy money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#m2)

3) (a monopoly on) Having something all to yourself: «You don't have a monopoly on the swing!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: families play Monopoly, which teaches counting money, adding and paying rent. In economics: a monopoly means no competition, so prices can be high. Phrases: «a monopoly on/of», «play Monopoly», «Monopoly money».

### examples

- We played Monopoly all afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#x1)
- I landed on my brother's hotel and had to pay rent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#x2)
- One company had a monopoly on the town's water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#x3)
- Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#x4)
- Monopoly money is not real money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#x5)
- A monopoly can make prices go up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/#x6)

### note

Plural: monopolies (y → ies). The game's name is a brand, written with a capital M. Stress: mo-NOP-o-ly. Verb: monopolise / monopolize (to keep something all to yourself).

### In the corpora

- [At Christmas Mia's cousin flips the Monopoly board across the room, so the aunties ban Monopoly at Christmas for good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/18/)
- [In Monopoly the brown streets are the cheapest and earn the least rent; a strategy is tested over many games, not one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/164-it-worked-once-one-example-is-not-all/23/)
- [In Monopoly the dice decide where you land; the banker handles the money but cannot choose squares.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «monopoly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monopoly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.