monopolize
verb (used with object)
to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
had monopolized
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past perfectof monopolize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He’d owned the USFL’s New Jersey Generals and led the upstart league to sue the NFL in the mid-1980s, alleging its established rivals had monopolized professional football.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
Mr. Einhorn was unable to negotiate a satisfactory television contract, and the league filed an antitrust suit against the N.F.L., claiming it had monopolized the fall schedule of the major networks, unfairly thwarting competition.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2016
To decide whether IBM had monopolized various markets claimed in Memorex's $900 million antitrust suit, jurors needed a detailed understanding of things like "reverse engineering," "cross elasticity of supply" and "subordinated debentures."
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. charged that for over 20 years, Cyanamid had monopolized trade in melamine, a chemical used in making Formica and plastics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before the Cape Gelidonya excavation took place, historians and archaeologists believed that Bronze Age Greeks known as Mycenaeans had monopolized merchant seafaring along the Mediterranean from about 1400 to 1200 BCE.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
