duopoly

noun

du·​op·​o·​ly du̇-ˈä-pə-lē How to pronounce duopoly (audio)
 also  dyu̇-
plural duopolies
1
: an oligopoly limited to two sellers
2
: preponderant influence or control by two political powers
duopolistic adjective

Examples of duopoly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Novo Nordisk-Eli Lilly weight loss drug duopoly is facing some hot competitors. Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024 But blocking the tie-up could be seen as helping Visa and Mastercard, the credit card giants some policymakers have criticized as a duopoly in need of a shakeup from more serious rivals. J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024 The merger could result in its expansion, providing more competition to Visa and Mastercard, which are sometimes referred to as a duopoly, said Ian Katz at Capital Alpha Partners. Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024 There are fears that the deployment of OpenRAN, which gives operators more flexibility to choose the vendors that supply its antennas and infrastructure, opens the Nordic duopoly up to competitors. Jillian Deutsch, Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2024 East Asian manufacturers such as Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung have emerged as leaders, with a near-complete duopoly on the advanced microprocessors that power high-consumption tech like virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024 Tatyana McFadden and Manuela Schär have held an even stronger American-Swiss duopoly over the women’s wheelchair division, sharing the last nine titles between them. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023 There will be more AI startups, and the open source model will gain some traction, but this will not be enough to halt the emergence of a duopoly in the industry, with Google and Microsoft/OpenAI dominating the field with their gargantuan models. Daron Acemoglu, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024 Desperate to break Google and Apple’s duopoly in the mapping space, the Overture Maps Foundation has released its first worldwide dataset to help developers make rival navigation and local search services. Bydavid Meyer, Fortune, 27 July 2023

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Word History

Etymology

duo- + -poly (as in monopoly)

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of duopoly was in 1920

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“Duopoly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duopoly. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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