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
A single monopolizer can diminish the quantity, and perhaps destroy a part of it with advantage to himself.
From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by William Playfair
"All endeavoring to get at the daring monopolizer of the apple-pies, I suppose?" said Tom.
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by George Yellott
When a woman sees her guests are led by a monopolizer along unsafe channels of thought, she can easily, by that happy faculty of hers, bring them back again where all will run smoothly.
From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Annie H Ryder
