oligopoly

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɒlɪˈɡɒpəli/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɒlɪˈɡɒpli/
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• General-American: /ˌɑləˈɡɑpəli/
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• General-American: /ˌoʊ-/
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• rhymes with -ɒpəli
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• CMU ARPABET: AA2 L IH0 G AA1 P AH0 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *h3ligos From oligo- (prefix meaning ‘few; several’) + -poly (suffix meaning ‘pertaining to the number of sellers in a market’), by analogy with monopoly.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: oligopolie — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Albanian: oligopoli — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Arabic: احتكار القلة — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Armenian: օլիգոպոլիա (ōligopolia) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Azerbaijani: oliqopoliya — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Basque: oligopolio — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Belarusian: алігаполія (alihapólija) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Bulgarian: олигопол (oligopol) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Catalan: oligopoli — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Chinese Mandarin: 寡頭壟斷 /寡头垄断 (guǎtóu lǒngduàn) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Czech: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Danish: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Dutch: oligopolie — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Estonian: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Finnish: oligopoli — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• French: oligopole — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Galician: oligopolio — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Georgian: ოლიგოპოლია (oligoṗolia) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• German: Oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Greek: ολιγοπώλιο (oligopólio) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Hebrew: אוליגופול — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Hungarian: oligopólium — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Icelandic: fákeppni — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Indonesian: oligopoli — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Irish: olagaplacht — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Italian: oligopolio — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Japanese: 寡占 (kasen) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Kannada: ಅಲ್ಪಸಂಖ್ಯಾಸಾಮ್ಯ (alpasaṅkhyāsāmya) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Kazakh: олигополия (oligopoliä) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Khmer: អប្បវិក្កយភាព (ʼɑɑpbɑɑvikkɑɑyphiəp) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Korean: 과점 (gwajeom) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Kyrgyz: олигополия (oligopoliya) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Latvian: oligopols — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Lithuanian: oligopolija — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Macedonian: олигопо́л (oligopól) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Malay: oligopoli — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Malayalam: ഒലിഗോപൊളി (oligōpoḷi) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Mongolian: олигополи (oligopoli) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Norwegian Bokmål: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Pashto: څوگونی انحصار — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Persian: انحصار چندتایی — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Polish: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Portuguese: oligopólio — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Romanian: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Russian: олигопо́лия (oligopólija) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀лигопо̄л — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Serbo-Croatian: òligopōl — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Slovak: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Spanish: oligopolio — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Swedish: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Tagalog: oligopolyo — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Turkish: oligopol — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Ukrainian: олігопо́лія (olihopólija) — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Uzbek: oligopoliya — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity
• Welsh: oligopoli — economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity