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: --
The war expenses monopolized an increasing part of the budget, in detriment to work on the dockyards and the new city.
The profits from monopolizing the innovation serve as the platform for the lead economy attaining political-economic leadership.
The state monopolized or dominated production of many goods and services, including telecommunications, banking, energy, broadcasting, forestry, tourism and transport.
Second, while it permits the progress of civilization, the fruits of this progress are monopolized by the towns to the detriment of the countryside.
The social meaning of the historical environment has in the past decades been strongly monopolized.
Each human organization in the territory sets up its own version of the truth and develops strategies for monopolizing the narration of the truth.
One household group monopolized most of this activity.
To keep bourgeois intellectuals from "monopolizing" the forum, the assembly had invited well-known model workers from throughout the country to participate.
