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Dictator vs Monopoly - What's the difference?

dictator | monopoly |

As a noun dictator

is originally, a magistrate without colleague in republican ancient rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.

As a proper noun monopoly is

a board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.

dictator

Alternative forms

* dictatour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Originally, a magistrate without colleague in republican ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war
  • A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government
  • A tyrannical boss, or authority figure
  • A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk)
  • A ruler or , the highest level of authority.
  • monopoly

    Noun

    (monopolies)
  • A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
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  • An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
  • The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.
  • (metonymy) The market thus controlled.
  • (metonymy) The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the the above manners.
  • Synonyms

    * (holder) monopolist

    Antonyms

    * monopsony

    Derived terms

    * monopolistic * monopolistically * monopolize, monopolization, monopolizer