Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In economics, a monopsony is a market with only one buyer. This can be compared to a monopoly in which there is only one seller. Examples An example of a market with a monopsony is the market for road construction, in which there are many suppliers but only one significant buyer (the government). The arms industry is another example when the only (domestic) customer is the state. See also: Market forms, Oligopsony This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.