monopolism
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Origin of monopolism
First recorded in 1880–85; monopol(y) + -ism
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Lithuania is also a victim of the Soviet economy's "monopolism" -- the practice of turning a single factory into the sole supplier of a certain product for the entire country.
From Time Magazine Archive
He may be mistaken, but that at any rate is his ideal: it includes lasting monopolism.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
Turning from the Old World to the New we find stories illustrating the same amusing disregard of amorous monopolism.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
To Hilliard all this seemed merely a pleasant proof of Eve's amiability, of her freedom from that acrid monopolism which characterises the ignoble female in her love relations.
From Eve's Ransom by Gissing, George
In fact, I have expressly classed monopolism among those seven ingredients of love which occur in its sensual as well as its sentimental phases.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
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