monopsonist

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Etymology

From monopsony +‎ -ist.

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monopsonist (plural monopsonists)

  1. A single buyer who dominates a market.
    • 1933, Joan Robinson, The Economics of Imperfect Competition‎[1], page 218:
      The case of a monopsonist buying from a monopolist (usually called “bi-lateral monopoly”) is not discussed in this book.
    • 2022, Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow, Chokepoint Capitalism […] , Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN:
      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.

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