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In economics, the domination of a market for a particular product or service by a single company, which can therefore restrict competition and keep prices high. In practice, a company can be said to have a monopoly when it controls a significant proportion of the market (technically an oligopoly). In a communist country the state itself has the overall monopoly; in capitalist countries some services, such as transport or electricity supply, may be state monopolies.

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