OLIGOPOLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oligopoly mean? 

• OLIGOPOLY (noun)
  The noun OLIGOPOLY has 1 sense:

1. (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors

  Familiarity information: OLIGOPOLY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLIGOPOLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("oligopoly" is a kind of...):

market; market place; marketplace (the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold)

Domain category:

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)