"Monopoly" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In commercial law. A privilege or pecullar advantage vested ln one or more persons or companies, consisting in the exclusive right (or power) to carry on a partlcular buslness or trade, manufacture & partlcular. article, or control the sale of the whole supply of a partlcular commodity
The commodity or other material thing to which the
monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France.
Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land.
The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity;
the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or
of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything,
however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a
monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies
have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a
combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive …
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