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natural monopoly

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Control over the market for a product which occurs when a firm gains large benefit from economies of scale, or from a superior business model or product, and is thus able to produce a very large percentage of the total market demand for a given product and unintentionally exclude meaningful competition via price structures.

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  • Catalan: monopoli natural — type of monopoly
  • Finnish: luonnollinen monopoli — type of monopoly
  • Georgian: ბუნებრივი მონოპოლია (bunebrivi monoṗolia) — type of monopoly
  • Russian: есте́ственная монопо́лия (jestéstvennaja monopólija) — type of monopoly
  • Tagalog: likas na sarilakal — type of monopoly