duopoly

English

WOTD – 29 July 2023

Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁

Coca-Cola and Pepsi are often called a duopoly (sense 1) in the cola soft drinks market.

From duo- (prefix meaning ‘two’) +‎ -poly (suffix meaning ‘pertaining to the number of sellers in a market’), by analogy with monopoly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /djuːˈɒpəli/, /duː-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /duˈɑpəli/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpəli
• Hyphenation: du‧o‧po‧ly

Noun

duopoly (countable and uncountable, plural duopolies)

2. (economics) An economic condition in which two sellers exert (most of the) control over the market of a commodity.
3. (by extension)
   1. The domination of a field of endeavour by two entities or people.
      • 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-11-15:

        In 2011, his spirit and body were shattered by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semi-finals. Last night, the stakes were just as high – even though the tournament is not out of the first week – because there is a creeping perception that the [Roger] Federer–[Rafael] Nadal duopoly is slowly giving way under pressure from below.

      • 2018 February 10, “Spain’s centrist Ciudadanos are on the march”, in The Economist‎^[2], London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-05-17:

        In Spain, Socialist and PP governments have alternated since the 1980s. This cosy duopoly was weakened by the long recession that followed the bursting of Spain’s housing bubble in 2007.

   2. (broadcasting) A situation in which two or more radio or television stations in the same city or community share common ownership.

      Synonym: (Canada) twinstick

Alternative spellings

• dyopoly

Coordinate terms

• duopsony
• monopoly
• oligopoly
• polypoly
• quadropoly
• quintopoly
• triopoly

 

Derived terms

• duopolism (rare)
• duopolist
• duopolistic
• duopolistically

Related terms

• duarchy

Translations

economic condition in which two sellers exert (most of the) control over the market of a commodity

• Arabic: احتكار ثنائي ?
• Azerbaijani: duopoliya
• Basque: duopolio m
• Bulgarian: дуополия (duopolija), дуопол (duopol)
• Catalan: duopoli m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙頭壟斷／双头垄断 (shuāngtóu lǒngduàn)

• Danish: duopol
• Finnish: duopoli (fi)
• French: duopole (fr) m
• Galician: duopolio m
• Georgian: დუოპოლია (duoṗolia)
• German: Duopol (de) n, Dyopol (de) n
• Greek: δυοπώλιο ? (dyopólio)
• Hebrew: דואופול
• Hindi: द्वयाधिकार (dvayādhikār)
• Hungarian: duopólium (hu)
• Indonesian: duopoli (id)
• Italian: duopolio (it) m
• Japanese: 複占 (ja) (ふくせん, fukusen)
• Kannada: ದ್ವಿಸ್ವಾಮ್ಯ (dvisvāmya)
• Kazakh: дуополия (duopoliä)
• Khmer: ទោវិក្កយភាព (toovɨkkɑɑyphiəp)
• Korean: 복점(複占) (ko) (bokjeom)
• Macedonian: ду́опол m (dúopol)
• Malay: duopoli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: duopol n

• Persian: انحصار دوگانه فروش
• Polish: duopol (pl) m
• Portuguese: duopólio m
• Romanian: duopol n
• Russian: дуопо́лия (ru) f (duopólija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̏опол m

  Roman: dȕopol (sh) m

• Spanish: duopolio (es) m
• Swedish: duopol (sv) ?
• Turkish: düopol
• Ukrainian: дуопо́лія (uk) f (duopólija)

domination of a field of endeavour by two entities or people

• Finnish: duopoli (fi)
• Macedonian: ду́опол m (dúopol)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̏опол m

  Roman: dȕopol (sh) m

situation in which two or more radio or television stations in the same city or community share common ownership

• Finnish: duopoli (fi)
• Macedonian: ду́опол m (dúopol)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̏опол m

  Roman: dȕopol (sh) m

Further reading

• duopoly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• duopoly (broadcasting) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia