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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors
originPIE word *h₃ligos From oligo- (prefix meaning ‘few; several’) + -poly (suffix meaning ‘pertaining to the number of sellers in a market’), by analogy with monopoly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
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- goopy 11
- gooily 10
- logily 10
- oology 10
- loopy 10
- polly 10
- gypo 10
- pogy 10