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Definition: Monopolize |
MonopolizeVerb1. Control fully and exclusively; "He monopolizes the laser printer". 2. Have or exploit a monopoly of; "OPEC wants to monopolize oil". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "monopolize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
Note: Monopolize \Mo*nop"o*lize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Monopolized; present participle verb or noun Monopolizing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: MonopolizeSynonym: monopolise (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Possession | Engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate, impropriate, have all to oneself; corner; have a firmhold of; (retain); get into one's hand; (acquire). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Monopolize |
| English words defined with "monopolize": Engrossing hand ♦ monopolise, Monopolized, Monopolizing ♦ To forestall the market. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "monopolize": wrecking crew. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | State-run banks monopolize public sector funds, as well as management of public sector pension funds. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Burma | The junta continued to monopolize and to control the content of all domestic radio broadcasting tightly. (references) |
Burma | The Government also continued to monopolize and to control tightly all domestic television broadcasting, offering only a government channel and an armed forces channel. (references) | |
Congo | The Fundamental Act provides for freedom of speech and of the press, and the Government generally respected these rights; however, it continued to monopolize broadcast media. (references) | |
Economic History | Burma | The state continues to monopolize rice exports. (references) |
Syria | Nevertheless, to foster competition, the government has put public sector enterprises on notice that they will no longer be permitted to monopolize entire sectors, particularly if private capital, foreign or domestic, can be attracted to finance projects. (references) | |
Human Rights | Liberia | For example, in June the Supreme Court issued an injunction against the Government's plan to monopolize cargo services at the Port of Monrovia; however, the Government disregarded the injunction. (references) |
Political Economy | Guinea | The private press criticized the Government freely, but the Government continued to monopolize the broadcast media, including radio, the most important medium of mass communication. (references) |
MEXICO | The current position of the Government of Mexico is to only recognize additional certification bodies on a."needs basis" raises serious concerns and is a strong indication that the existing product certification bodies will continue to monopolize the market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Monopolize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Monopolize" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 78.57% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.43% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "monopolize": monopolize the conversation. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
marketplace monopolize | 7 |
marketplace.com monopolize | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "monopolize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | monopolizoj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إحتكر (corner, sew up), إستثمر (develop, exploit, invest, mine, operation, place, plough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | монополизирам, правя монопол от. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 垄断 (Cornered, Cornering, monopolise, Monopolized, Monopolizing), 把持 (control, dominate), " (seize), 壟斷 (enjoy market dominance), 壟 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | monopolizovat (monopolise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | opkopen (corner), accapareren (corner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | akapari (corner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | leggja undir seg (conquer, corner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | امتیازانحصاری گرفتن , بخودانحصاردادن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | monopoliser, accaparer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | monopolisieren (corner), an sich reißen (seize, to monopolize, usurp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έχω μονοπώλιον, μονοπωλώ (corner, engross). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שי' מו ופול. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | monopolizál (to engross, to monopolize), kisajátít magának (to monopolize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memonopoli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | monopolizzare (corner, monopolise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | モノカルボン酸 (dag coating containing molybdenum, mobile, mohair, Mohawk, Mohawk haircut, molybdenum, moment, momism, monaural, monaural record, monocarboxylic acid, monochrome, monoclonal, mono-fluorine, monogram, monograph, monographie, monolock, monologue, monomania, monomaniac, monomer, monopoly, monorail, monosexual, monotone, monotype, moped, moral hazard, moral majority, moral pollution, moral risk, moral sense, moral support, morale, morale survey, moralist, morality, moratorium, Morris dance, person fond of using a mobile phone, unisex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | モノポライズ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 독 하십시" (monopolise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | greimmey hug hene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onopolizemay monopolizar (corner, engross), monopolizador, fazertruste (corner), chamar a si, abarcar (corner, embrace, hug, include), açambarcar (appropriate, corner, engross, monopoly). (various references) monopoliza (engross), acapara (absorb, corner, forestall, hog, poach, seize). (various references) монополизировать (engross). (various references) monopolizovati, monopolisati (corner, hog). (various references) monopolizar (corner, sew up). (various references) lägga beslag på (bag, corral, embargo, engage, impound). (various references) tekeline almak (engross, sew up), tekel altına almak. (various references) монополізувати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "monopolize": monopolized, monopolizer, monopolizers, monopolizes. (additional references) | |
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"Monopolize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ionopolis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "monopolize" (pronounced munÄ"pulī'z) |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demobilize, demoralize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, moralize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-n-o-o-o-p-z" | |
-2 letters: monopole. | |
-3 letters: epizoon, oinomel. | |
-4 letters: impone, lomein, moline, oilmen, pinole, pomelo. | |
-5 letters: eloin, impel, lemon, limen, looie, melon, mizen, monie, nomoi, olein, opine, ozone, pelon, polio. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-n-o-o-o-p-z" | |
+1 letter: monopolized, monopolizer, monopolizes. | |
+2 letters: monopolizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 6F 70 6F 6C 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. --- .--. --- .-.. .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01101111 01110000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n o p o l i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006E 006F 0070 006F 006C 0069 007A 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818081828178759271 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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