I think it’s just description of “absence of competition”. Reasons for lack of it, are orthogonal to the term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly https:

I think it’s just description of “absence of competition”. Reasons for lack of it, are orthogonal to the term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly > Are they crippling their competitors or gimping their market somehow? Anticompetitive behaviour and monopoly are separate. You can have the 2nd one without the first one.