MEANING
1. Gain or hold exclusive control over a market, supply, or resource, excluding others from sharing control.
2. Take up so much attention or discussion that other people cannot participate or receive it.
Use it for
describing exclusion from a market or resource; questioning control concentrated in one actor; distinguishing exclusive control from ordinary market participationDistinguishes exclusive control or exclusionary dominance from merely having a large contribution. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- monopolize a market
- monopolize the supply
- monopolize an essential resource
On the page
The model asks what happens when one firm can monopolize access to an essential input.
The merger analysis must define the relevant market before claiming that the combined firm could monopolize it.
One participant monopolized the discussion, limiting the range of views captured by the focus group.
The essay asks whether a famous figure monopolizes attention that might otherwise reveal less visible contributors.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- monopolize
- Past tense
- monopolized
- Past participle
- monopolized
- Present participle
- monopolizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- monopolize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are monopolizing
- Present perfect
- have/has monopolized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been monopolizing
- Past
- monopolized
- Past continuous
- was/were monopolizing
- Past perfect
- had monopolized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been monopolizing
- Future
- will monopolize
- Future continuous
- will be monopolizing
- Future perfect
- will have monopolized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been monopolizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive verb. Third-person monopolizes; simple past and past participle monopolized; present participle monopolizing. Monopolise is the British spelling, not a second entry. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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