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MONOPOLIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monopolize mean? 

MONOPOLIZE (verb)
  The verb MONOPOLIZE has 2 senses:

1. have and control fully and exclusivelyplay

2. have or exploit a monopoly ofplay

  Familiarity information: MONOPOLIZE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MONOPOLIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they monopolize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it monopolizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: monopolized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: monopolized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: monopolizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Have and control fully and exclusively

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

monopolise; monopolize

Context example:

He monopolizes the laser printer

Hypernyms (to "monopolize" is one way to...):

command; control (exercise authoritative control or power over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

monopoly (exclusive control or possession of something)

monopoly ((economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Have or exploit a monopoly of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

monopolise; monopolize

Context example:

OPEC wants to monopolize oil

Hypernyms (to "monopolize" is one way to...):

have; have got; hold (have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

monopolist (someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something)

monopolization (domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others)

monopolizer (someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something)

monopoly (exclusive control or possession of something)

monopoly ((economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller)


 Context examples 


The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You shouldn't have monopolized Professor Caldwell that way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They had too much sense to be desirable companions to the former; and by the latter they were considered with a jealous eye, as intruding on THEIR ground, and sharing the kindness which they wanted to monopolize.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster and all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night, anyways, for an hour!

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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