monopsonist

plural monopsonists

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

   2 more examples

   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

   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 28, Tirza J. Angerhofer, Allan Collard-Wexler, Matthew C. Weinberg, “Oligopsony and Collective Bargaining”, in NBER Working Paper Series, number 35476, page 4