Imperfect competition
noun
1.
(economics) the market situation that exists when one or more of the necessary conditions for perfect competition do not hold
noun
any of several market situations in which individual producers or consumers still exercise some control over prices, e.g. monopoly, oligopoly, monopsony, or oligopsony
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