monopolies
- 1Plural of monopoly.
Regulators worry that a handful of tech monopolies now control the market.
Several state-owned monopolies were privatized during the reforms.
Note
A regular plural: a consonant before the final y turns -y into -ies, just as company becomes companies. The plural counts things that come in numbers: the firms or cartels holding exclusive control, the markets they dominate, or the privileges that grant that control. The board game's name is a proper noun, so it is not what this plural usually refers to.
monopolies is a form of monopoly
monopoly, noun: A market situation in which a single company or group is the only provider of a product or service, giving it strong control over prices and supply. Full entry
- Forms
- monopolymonopolies plural
- Spelling
- monopoly → monopolies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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