The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monopolize \Mo*nop"o*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Monopolized; p. pr. & vb. n. Monopolizing.] [From Monopoly.] To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: monopolize)
Usage examples of "monopolized".
If it hadn't been Hiruna who monopolized the attentions of their promised ladies, the two friends would have snagged them away at the very first opportunity, but Hiruna seemed to require that they serve him the various delicacies prepared by the colonists' best cooks.
This feeder airline monopolized all air traffic in and out of Shanghai from Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo and Bangkok, and if merged with Air Struan, their fledgling airline, Struan's would have virtual feeder monopoly in the Far East based out of Hong Kong.
No matter, he appreciated their company which, since Damia had monopolized them as playmates, he had little of.
Meanwhile, there was no point in trying to get Van's attention: this Marjolec Hess-Tukin monopolized him.
Trag was monopolized at one end of the table by Elders Ampris and Torkes, who engaged him in very serious discussions, while Mirbethan did her best to introduce unexceptional topics into conversation at the other.
You monopolized Alessan when his mother and the mother of every eligible girl able to creep or crawl to that Gather .
And during the evenings, when Rob might have monopolized her company, he had to play or sing with the other harpers.
Half the female population of the Weyr must be involved in this operation, F'nor thought, for great cauldrons monopolized all the large hearths set in the outside wall of the Cavern.
He'd often carped that Impressions ought not to be monopolized by one inbred sodality.
F'lar and F'nor monopolized the instrument for the short space of time that the peculiar objects remained visible in the slowly darkening sky.
Sentence of death of Pierre Gourdier, thirty-six years of age, stock-broker, resident in Paris, rue Bellefond, convicted of having monopolized and concealed in his house a large quantity of bread, in order to bread scarcity in the midst of abundance.
The priests monopolized the medium of exchange and were able to extract interest for lending it.
Ayeeyal,, u p to twenty-odd years ago when the barbarians lost their fornicating war to the fiends from the Eastern Sea, the government monopolized the trade here.
Ayeeyah, up to twenty-odd years ago when the barbarians lost their fornicating war to the fiends from the Eastern Sea, the government monopolized the trade here.
The Chinese Guild of Merchants, which by imperial decree monopolized all Western Trade, bought the cargo and sold it secretly at a great profit.