0 in business, to control something completely and to prevent other people having any effect on what happens:
The company had monopolized the photography market for so many decades that they didn't worry about competition from other companies.
1 If someone monopolizes a person or a conversation, they talk a lot or stop other people being involved:
She completely monopolized the conversation at lunch.
2 to have or take complete control of something so that others are prevented from sharing it:
She has a habit of monopolizing the conversation.
3 to take control of the supply and price of a particular product or service:
In most weaving centers, the profession was monopolized by members of one or two castes.
Cabinet appointments are the most important personnel decisions in parliamentary systems, and traditionally such appointments have been virtually monopolized by the governing political parties.
The explanation surely is an intention of a different kind that possessed him - possessed him with monopolizing completeness.
They thus monopolized control of public behavior and accepted the concomitant responsibility of protecting the lives and the property of the citizens.
The historical references are not those expected: sensibility was no longer monopolized by the works of antiquity and the monumental expressions of urban glory.
Actions to exclude competitors from the field of competition were precisely the common law definition of monopolizing behavior.
Only later do they become crystallized and codified in professional socialization and training - a codification that has not been monopolized by any single profession.
To keep bourgeois intellectuals from "monopolizing" the forum, the assembly had invited well-known model workers from throughout the country to participate.
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