different between seller vs oligopoly

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?l?/ enPR: s?l-?r
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)
• Homophone: cellar

Etymology 1

From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell +? -er. Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.

   Alisha was a seller of fine books.

2. Something which sells.

   Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

seller (plural sellers)

1. Obsolete spelling of cellar

Anagrams

• Ellers, ellers, resell

Estonian

Noun

seller (genitive selleri, partitive sellerit)

1. celery

Declension

French

Etymology

selle +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.le/, /se.le/
• Homophone: sceller

Verb

seller

1. to saddle

Conjugation

Related terms

• selle
• desseller

Further reading

• “seller” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

selle (“saddle”) +? -er

Verb

seller

1. (Jersey) to saddle

Related terms

• sell'lie f (“saddlery”)
• sellyi m (“saddler”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

seller

1. indefinite plural of selle m or f
2. indefinite plural of selle m

Etymology 2

Noun

seller m

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1981; superseded by selger

Verb

seller

1. present tense of selle (non-standard since 1981)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

seller f

1. indefinite plural of selle

Pennsylvania German

Determiner

seller

1. inflection of sell:
   1. masculine nominative/accusative singular
   2. feminine dative singular

English

Etymology

Derived, by analogy with monopoly, from Ancient Greek ?????? (olígoi, “few”) + ????? (p?lé?, “to sell”).From oligo- +? -poly

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l????p?li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l????p?li/

Noun

oligopoly (plural oligopolies)

1. An economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity.

Related terms

• oligopolist, oligopolistic, oligopolistically, oligopolize

Related terms

• monopoly
• duopoly

Translations

See also

• duopoly
• monopoly
• oligopsony