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.
They monopolized the market with the outside.
Social delineation, licensing, and reproduction through specialized training are the mechanisms by which expertise is established, monopolized, and perpetuated.
Ceremonial exchange was, furthermore, linked with the power structures within these societies; prestige objects and the networks of exchange were monopolized by the leaders and their followers.
Patricians are credited with trying to distinguish themselves as a separate social group within this complicated urban context and, if they did, it is unlikely that they monopolized this activity.
The chiefly leaders appeared to have monopolized the possession of gold objects, and apparently held rights to placer rivers within the chiefdom's territory, where gold was panned.
Domestic private media and international satellite and internet providers compete with the state-owned media for audience in countries where government once monopolized broadcasting.
The social meaning of the historical environment has in the past decades been strongly monopolized.
The war expenses monopolized an increasing part of the budget, in detriment to work on the dockyards and the new city.
