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monopoly

monopolio

a market with only one seller of a product that has no close substitutes.

Example

In 1911, the Supreme Court broke up John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, which had once controlled about 90% of U.S. oil refining.

In Spanish

monopolio — un mercado con un solo vendedor de un producto que no tiene sustitutos cercanos.

En 1911, la Corte Suprema dividió la Standard Oil de John D. Rockefeller, que llegó a controlar cerca del 90% de la refinación de petróleo en EE. UU.

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