monopoly

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. trust, cartel, syndicate, pool; corner. See restraint, possession.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. trust, corner, syndicate, cartel, merger, oligopoly, pool, copyright, patent, restraint of trade.

Ant. open market, free trade.

Syn.- monopoly applies to the exclusive control of a commodity or service in a given market, or control that makes possible the fixing of prices and the virtual elimination of competition; trust is a combination of corporations, organized for the purpose of gaining a monopoly, in which stock is turned over to trustees who issue stock certificates to the stockholders: trusts are now illegal in the U.S.; cartel , the European term for a trust, now usually implies an international trust; a syndicate is now usually a group of bankers, corporations, etc. organized to buy large blocks of securities, afterward selling them in small parcels to the public at a profit; a corner is a temporary speculative monopoly of some stock or commodity for the purpose of raising the price

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

control, corner, domination, cartel, bloc, exclusive possession. ''The octopus.''—Frank Norris.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Exclusive control or possession: corner. See CONTROL, OWNED.