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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oligopolistic

1939, from oligo- "little, small," in plural, "few" + -poly, from Greek polein "to sell" (see monopoly).

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oligopolistic

a. Having the character of, or dominated by, an oligopoly

Usage examples of "oligopolistic".

In political terms, the global information infrastructure might be characterized as the combination of a democratic mechanism and an oligopolistic mechanism, which operate along different models of network systems.

The oligopolistic network model is characterized by broadcast systems.

This oligopolistic model is not a rhizome but a tree structure that subordinates all of the branches to the central root.