monopsonist en · NOUN
Etymology
From monopsony + -ist.
Meanings
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A single buyer who dominates a market.
The case of a monopsonist buying from a monopolist (usually called “bi-lateral monopoly”) is not discussed in this book.
1933, Joan Robinson, The Economics of Imperfect Competition, page 218:This policy combines a) replacing an oligopsony of school districts with a state monopsonist and b) an identical wage in each school district.
2026 July 14, Tirza J. Angerhofer, Allan Collard-Wexler, Matthew C. Weinberg, “Oligopsony and Collective Bargaining”, in NBER Working Paper Series, number 35476, page 4:Amazon isn't the only monopsonist to take advantage of anticircumvention law to cement its dominance; Google and Facebook and Apple do the same thing.
2022, Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow, Chokepoint Capitalism […] , Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| monopsonists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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es monopsonista (Translations)