monopoly

monopole

Situation où une seule entreprise contrôle presque toutes les ventes d’un produit ou service, avec très peu de concurrence.

En anglais simple : A situation where one company controls nearly all sales of a product or service, with little competition.

• The company has a monopoly.
• Without competition, a monopoly can charge high prices.
• The government acted to break the firm’s monopoly on telephone services.

Comment l'utiliser : a monopoly on something (The company has a monopoly on local electricity sales.); a monopoly in something (It holds a monopoly in the domestic rail market.)

Synonymes : monopolist

Expressions courantes : have a monopoly, monopoly on something, state monopoly, monopoly on trade