sole-source

[ sohl-sawrs, -sohrs ]

adjective

1. designating a company contracted, without competition, to be the sole supplier of a product or service, as a firm having an exclusive contract for certain military technology.

Example Sentences

Costs would come down if we had competition,” she explained, “instead of using sole-source shutters.

From The Daily Beast

It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery.

From Project Gutenberg

But there is very great danger in looking here alone for the sole source of all the help we need.

From Project Gutenberg

It would be folly to try to depend upon lime as a sole source of soil fertility.

From Project Gutenberg

To say that Marx held labor to be the sole source of wealth is to misrepresent his whole teaching.

From Project Gutenberg

By 1917, the allies had stopped shipments of coffee to Germany through neighbors who had been her sole source of supply.

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