Definitions
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- noun A member of an
oligopoly ; one of a small number ofsellers with undueinfluence over amarket .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thursday, June 18 2009 does anyone see a connection between FCC auctions, fewer & larger carriers, oligopolist cartel pricing, and anticompetetive behavior?
ISPs Should Decide If They Provide a Utility or a Service 2009
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Seigelman is still facing a crooked Justice Department, unemployment is skyrocketing while oligopolist bankers are draining our money supply.
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The optimal pricing strategy for an oligopolist is to set the price just below that level that will attract significant new entrents to the market.
Son of Simon, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The optimal pricing strategy for an oligopolist is much more complex than that, and is nowhere near as general as you claim.
Son of Simon, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The nature of your work suggests that you are an oligopolist if not a monopolist who, with the advent of the serio, is engaging in honest-to-god price discrimination.
On The Serio 2009
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While they made the cut to maximize oligopolist profits, I was interested in the consequences of such an action.
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While they made the cut to maximize oligopolist profits, I was interested in the consequences of such an action.
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But secondary meaning is irrelevant to protection of a generic term: a monopolist or here, oligopolist may be identified with a generic term because it's the sole or biggest seller, but that doesn't prohibit others from using the term in commerce to identify their goods to the public.
For Pete (Ross)'s sake Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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The telcos are trying to institutionalize this oligopolist pricing model.
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An oligopolist market often distorts the competition principles which are supposed to keep prices low.
Archive 2005-03-01 Garry 2005
adoarns commented on the word oligopolist
Have to add the dual: oligopsonist.
July 7, 2008