monopolize
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monopolize (third-person singular simple present monopolizes, present participle monopolizing, simple past and past participle monopolized)
- (transitive) To have a monopoly on something.
- (transitive) To dominate or to get total control of something by excluding everyone else.
- Teachers try not to let any one student monopolize a class discussion.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "Now, Mr. Malone, I have given you rather more of my time than I had intended. The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world."
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have a monopoly
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dominate
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monopolize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of monopolizar:
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monopolize
- inflection of monopolizar: