monopolize
verb (used with object)
to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
monopolizer
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a word derived from
monopolize.
Example Sentences
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Please don't dignify the concept of natural phenomena as "intellectual property" by giving color monopolizer Pantone a platform.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2018
Some people think of Bill Gates as a godless, misanthropic, penny-pinching monopolizer.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is such a monopolizer that no man else can get a morsel!
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
It is quite other property it tends to destroy; the property, the claim, of the creditor, the mortgagee, the landlord, and usurer, the forestaller, gambling speculator, monopolizer and absentee….
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
As Plato borrowed, as Shakespeare borrowed, as Mirabeau "plagiarized every good thought, every good word that was spoken in France," so Napoleon is not merely "representative, but a monopolizer and usurper of other minds."
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
