Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An economic or political condition in which power is concentrated in two persons or groups.
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- noun economics A
market situation in which two companies exclusively provide a particular product or service.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Until something like that happens, the duopoly is the state of the world, no matter how much Ralph Nader bangs his little fists.
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The party duopoly is really only a late 19th and early 20th century phenomenon.
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Anyway this convenient duopoly is the making of an inherently corrupt and duplicitous crooks called our politicians and elected officials.
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Then, I begin to look outside my window, to merge with another provider, to lower my cost, my backhaul expense (via volume purchase agreements), base station expense (through standardization) and viola, a duopoly is born.
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But the solution to a monopoly or duopoly is competition.
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And that's why it doesn't matter which of the duopoly is currently in charge.
warnings 2005
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The final word in this alphabet soup is that just two companies -- the new AT&T and Verizon, a "duopoly" -- would control almost all of the local residential wireline service, most of the long-distance telephone service, most of the cellphone and other wireless service, and most of the DSL wires -- as used by competitors to carry Internet phone calls and broadband TV -- across the USA.
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A duopoly is a situation where one person or other entity owns two TV stations in the same broadcasting market.
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A duopoly is the practice of owning two stations in the same market.
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This is part of the genius of the Democrap-Republicrook two-party duopoly, which is no more than a plutocratic political partnership to maintain the corpocracy and prevent the non-wealthy 80 percent of the population from taking the power that is theirs.
When Winning Is Losing - Democraps Are A Political Placebo 2006
Gammerstang commented on the word duopoly
(noun) - (1) A condition in which there are only two suppliers of a certain commodity, service, etc. The domination of a particular market by two firms. Hence duopolist, one member of a duopoly; duopolize, to engross between two.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893
(2) Special coinage formed from duo, on the analogy of monopolize.
--Robert Hunter's Encyclopædic Dictionary, 1895
January 15, 2018