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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monopolist

Monopolist \Mo*nop"o*list\ (m[-o]*n[o^]p"[-o]*l[i^]st), n. One who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly.

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monopolist

n. One who has, or attempts to acquire, a monopoly on something.

WordNet
monopolist

n. someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something [syn: monopolizer, monopoliser]

Usage examples of "monopolist".

But they found the prices for their produce going down, and the prices of transportation and loans going up, because the individual farmer could not control die price of his grain, while the monopolist railroad and the monopolist banker could charge what they liked.

The monopolists of knowledge and intellectual products cannot allow competition anywhere in the world - because theirs is a world market.

These markets being global, the monopolists of intellectual products fight unfair competition globally.

The average farmer was interested mainly in local issues, conditions, and problems, and looked upon the National Grange not as a means of helping him in local affairs, but as a combination of monopolists who had taken out a patent on the local grange and forced him to pay a royalty in order to enjoy its privileges.

All friends of humanity determined to resist monopolists and extortioners are invited to attend.

Whoever keeps on hand more than he consumes is a monopolist and commits a capital crime.

And, that none of the middle or upper class may escape, the edict subjects to special rigor, supplementary taxes, and arbitrary arrest, not alone property-holders and fund-holders, but again all persons designated under the following heads, - aristocrats, Feuillants, moderates, Girondists, federalists, muscadins, the superstitious, fanatics the abettors of royalism, of superstition and of federation, monopolists, jobbers, egoists, "suspects " of incivism, and, generally, all who are indifferent to the Revolution, of which local committees are to draw up the lists.