Read full poem →** Great Homer's birth sev'n rival cities claim.
Too mightv such monopoly of Fame :
Yet not to oirth alone didllomer owe
Dictionary Entry
A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
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Poetry examples for “monopoly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →its original, not designed rigidly to fetter their commerce) was re'en-
acted, with new and oppressive provisions; a monopoly being
secured to English merchants, English ships, and English navigators,
