legal monopoly

基本解释

Legal monopoly means the monopoly that is permitted by the law, it consists of exception and exemption.
合法垄断即法律所许可的垄断，它包括适用除外与豁免两种情形。
Federal Reserve Notes, the legal monopoly of cash or "standard, " money, now serves as the base of two inverted pyramids determining the supply of money in the country.
现在联邦储备券作为法定的垄断货币或“标准”货币，成为了支撑两个倒金字塔货币体系结构的基石，这个结构决定了国内的货币供应量。
Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.
不像在金本位时代的日子里，现在的联邦储备银行已经没有任何破产可能了；整个国家里只有它拥有合法伪造货币的权力（凭空造钱）。

Since it hadn't invented the drug, Bristol couldn't get a 20-year patent -- a legal monopoly.
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Shareholders should not be allowed to hold ratepayers captive as a legal monopoly for anything other than extraordinary benefits.
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The rest of this, however, is a series of strategies to preserve extraordinary margins after the legal monopoly is gone.
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