natural monopolies

A form of natural monopoly — Control over the market for a product which occurs when a firm gains large benefit from economies of scale, or from a superior business model or product, and is thus able to produce a very large percentage of the total market demand for a given product and unintentionally exclude meaningful competition via price structures.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of natural monopoly
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