duopoly
English edit
Etymology edit
PIE word |
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*dwóh₁ |
From duo- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -poly (suffix meaning ‘pertaining to the number of sellers in a market’), by analogy with monopoly.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /djuːˈɒpəli/, /duː-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /duˈɑpəli/
Audio (GA) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒpəli
- Hyphenation: du‧o‧po‧ly
Noun edit
duopoly (countable and uncountable, plural duopolies)
- (economics) An economic condition in which two sellers exert (most of the) control over the market of a commodity.
- (by extension)
- The domination of a field of endeavour by two entities or people.
- 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-11-15:
- In 2011, his spirit and body were shattered by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semi-finals. Last night, the stakes were just as high – even though the tournament is not out of the first week – because there is a creeping perception that the [Roger] Federer–[Rafael] Nadal duopoly is slowly giving way under pressure from below.
- 2018 February 10, “Spain’s centrist Ciudadanos are on the march”, in The Economist[2], London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-05-17:
- In Spain, Socialist and PP governments have alternated since the 1980s. This cosy duopoly was weakened by the long recession that followed the bursting of Spain’s housing bubble in 2007.
- 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian[3]:
- And these industrial farms have concentrated into a series of duopolies. Google and Apple’s browsers have nearly 85% of the world market share. Microsoft and Apple’s two desktop operating systems have almost 90%. Google runs about 90% of global search. More than half of all phones come from Apple and Samsung, while 99% of mobile operating systems are from Google or Apple. Apple and Google’s email clients manage nearly 90% of global email. GoDaddy and Cloudflare serve about 50% of global domain name system requests. And so on.
- (broadcasting) A situation in which two or more radio or television stations in the same city or community share common ownership.
- Synonym: (Canada) twinstick
- The domination of a field of endeavour by two entities or people.
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Translations edit
economic condition in which two sellers exert (most of the) control over the market of a commodity
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domination of a field of endeavour by two entities or people
References edit
- ^ “duopoly, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “duopoly, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
- duopoly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- duopoly (broadcasting) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia