0 past simple and past participle of monopolize
1 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.
2 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.
Cabinet appointments are the most important personnel decisions in parliamentary systems, and traditionally such appointments have been virtually monopolized by the governing political parties.
Some of these early communities, likely lineage and clan-based groups, monopolized control of iron production.
It was not surprising that the missions monopolized text versions of the local languages.
But this military revolution could not be monopolized.
Only later do they become crystallized and codified in professional socialization and training - a codification that has not been monopolized by any single profession.
One household group monopolized most of this activity.
The state monopolized or dominated production of many goods and services, including telecommunications, banking, energy, broadcasting, forestry, tourism and transport.
The war expenses monopolized an increasing part of the budget, in detriment to work on the dockyards and the new city.
