The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MONOPOLY
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More clues leading to the result MONOPOLY
- Second refusal by old college to provide game
- Game making you love college after start of the workingweek
- Sole trader might have this long game to play?
- Exclusivity in my pool – no swimming
- Fancy carrying on playing pool game?
- Functioning swimming pool in my exclusive control
- No competition for this game
- Dr No with strange ploy for domination
- Beginning to moan about old former college game
- Game that’s not competitive
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The straight part
We know that "exclusive rights" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case exclusive rights = monopoly.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MONOPOLY mean?
MONOPOLY noun- A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
- An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
- The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control.
- (metonymy) The market thus controlled.
- (metonymy) The holder (person, company or other) of such market domination in one of the above manners.