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monopsonist en · NOUN

Etymology

From monopsony + -ist.

Meanings

  1. 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:

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Antonyms

monopolist

Translations (1)

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