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Monopsony:

A market with only one buyer (single customer). An unregulated monopolist will undersupply a product (to increase the price), halting production where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Similarly, a monopsonist will purchase less of a product to decrease the price it has to pay, to where its marginal expenditure just equals the marginal benefit from an additional unit of the good or service.

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