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Definition of duopoly in English: duopolynounPlural duopolies djuːˈɒpəlid(j)uˈɑpəli A situation in which two suppliers dominate the market for a commodity or service. Example sentencesExamples - Traditionally, the international forms of both industries have been regulated by bilateral treaties between nations, and traditionally the international business has been dominated by often state owned monopolies and duopolies.
- Basic industry knowledge indicates that duopolies do not lead to price competition, but that licensing of multiple operators does.
- Now, most markets are cozy duopolies, at best, where consumers can get broadband only from a phone or cable company.
- In the duopoly that has resulted, the big two have a vice-like grip on the sector, having a combined market share of 96 per cent.
- Up until 1990 there was effectively a duopoly in operation.
- A year later it began flights between Dublin and London, with the end of the duopoly, sparking a massive shakeup of the airline sector.
- But sense prevailed and a comfortable duopoly closed in on Sydney newspaper readers.
- Shareholders are wanting higher returns from companies in mature markets or in cosy duopolies or oligopolies.
- By way of contrast, the first-decade mobile cellular market was characterised by monopolies and duopolies.
- However, many companies will build on top of the older technologies, and many incumbent monopolies or duopolies have introduced cell services or have seamless links between the mobile and fixed systems.
- In the future, can we trust our news organizations to cover the issue of corporate mergers, duopolies, and media cross-ownership honestly and critically?
- But even asking whether TV duopolies and newspaper-TV combos can produce better news may be beside the point.
- Well we don't believe it's in the public interest for there to emerge in Australia a duopoly in the liquor industry.
- It's as if perfection is a duopoly of sexual license and sexual commitment and nobody's perfect.
- In a lot of cases, these companies operate as the dominant players, you know, duopolies, monopolies, and they know that these businesses have got nowhere else to go, they are the largest companies within their industries.
- Nevertheless, particularly in the case of a duopoly, a large market share is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, likewise a strong indication of the existence of a dominant position.
- Many of these figures, concerned about the cultural protectionism of the duopoly, saw the need for a ‘third force’ in broadcasting in the 1970s.
- He also considered conditions for equilibrium with monopoly, duopoly and perfect competition.
- It reinforces a basic business principle: duopolies, no less than monopolies, are bad for competition, bad for prices and bad for the consumer.
- By breaking up the cozy duopoly, Congress could make the GSEs compete more for mortgages - and ensure that risk is spread more widely.
Derivatives adjective If you had told me 30 years ago that in the United States in the year 2004, no female presidential candidate had ever been nominated by either of the duopolistic parties I would not have believed you. Example sentencesExamples - The best a much condensed Dons following can realistically hope for in these duopolistic times is a brush with bronze, but defeat to Motherwell yesterday dented even that humble aspiration.
- No one wants them to fail given the duopolistic nature of the mobile phone industry, but hopefully this serves as an early warning to the company.
- Unsurprisingly, big, politically painful structural changes, such as ending the cable franchise system, which reduces land line competition to a duopolistic farce, are nowhere in sight.
- While it is in a duopolistic domestic railroad market, its market power was severely constrained by cross-border substitutes in the United States and by domestic substitutes such as trucking and shipping.
Origin 1920s: from duo-, on the pattern of monopoly. Definition of duopoly in US English: duopolynound(y)o͞oˈäpəlēd(j)uˈɑpəli A situation in which two suppliers dominate the market for a commodity or service. Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless, particularly in the case of a duopoly, a large market share is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, likewise a strong indication of the existence of a dominant position.
- Up until 1990 there was effectively a duopoly in operation.
- In the duopoly that has resulted, the big two have a vice-like grip on the sector, having a combined market share of 96 per cent.
- By way of contrast, the first-decade mobile cellular market was characterised by monopolies and duopolies.
- It reinforces a basic business principle: duopolies, no less than monopolies, are bad for competition, bad for prices and bad for the consumer.
- In the future, can we trust our news organizations to cover the issue of corporate mergers, duopolies, and media cross-ownership honestly and critically?
- Traditionally, the international forms of both industries have been regulated by bilateral treaties between nations, and traditionally the international business has been dominated by often state owned monopolies and duopolies.
- Many of these figures, concerned about the cultural protectionism of the duopoly, saw the need for a ‘third force’ in broadcasting in the 1970s.
- A year later it began flights between Dublin and London, with the end of the duopoly, sparking a massive shakeup of the airline sector.
- Well we don't believe it's in the public interest for there to emerge in Australia a duopoly in the liquor industry.
- In a lot of cases, these companies operate as the dominant players, you know, duopolies, monopolies, and they know that these businesses have got nowhere else to go, they are the largest companies within their industries.
- It's as if perfection is a duopoly of sexual license and sexual commitment and nobody's perfect.
- But sense prevailed and a comfortable duopoly closed in on Sydney newspaper readers.
- However, many companies will build on top of the older technologies, and many incumbent monopolies or duopolies have introduced cell services or have seamless links between the mobile and fixed systems.
- Shareholders are wanting higher returns from companies in mature markets or in cosy duopolies or oligopolies.
- But even asking whether TV duopolies and newspaper-TV combos can produce better news may be beside the point.
- By breaking up the cozy duopoly, Congress could make the GSEs compete more for mortgages - and ensure that risk is spread more widely.
- Now, most markets are cozy duopolies, at best, where consumers can get broadband only from a phone or cable company.
- Basic industry knowledge indicates that duopolies do not lead to price competition, but that licensing of multiple operators does.
- He also considered conditions for equilibrium with monopoly, duopoly and perfect competition.
Origin 1920s: from duo-, on the pattern of monopoly. |