Sentence examples for monopolize from inspiring English sources
The word "monopolize" is correct and can be used in written English
It means to have exclusive control over something. For example, "The company has been trying to monopolize the market for luxury cars."
verb
To have a monopoly on something
Nationalists increasingly criticized the politics of the "coffee governments," including their selfish tendencies to monopolize power along regional lines, manipulate elections, and resist economic diversification.
In a highly authoritarian polity, the regime tries to monopolize for itself all opportunities to engage in propaganda, and often it will stop at nothing to crush any kind of counterpropaganda.
Greece has also prevented Macedonia from joining the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization as part of its attempts to monopolize the name Macedonia.
Not being able to monopolize an indispensable skill and thereby realize their interests at the workplace and through the market alone, workers in such industries needed unions capable of mobilizing mass solidarity across occupational boundaries.
It is clear that men or women alone begin some dances and the other sex may then join in and that men monopolize some dances, women others.
Portuguese efforts to monopolize exploration and trade along the western African coast were disrupted by those who saw the potential of the wealth of Africa for their own interests, and smuggling was rife.
In accordance with the generalization above, the deuterium will tend to monopolize R, with which, by hypothesis, it forms a stronger bond than it does with R′.
However, it also seeks to monopolize the benefits of this modernization by exploiting the propertyless proletariat and thereby creating revolutionary tensions.
When the colonial powers of Europe founded their empires from the 16th century onward, they attempted to monopolize trade with the colonies and to turn it to their own profit.
The New Democrats – led by bearded, experienced Thomas Mulcair – have emulated Tony Blair's New Labour by jettisoning their old-school socialist baggage and veering onto the centre-left terrain previously monopolized by the Liberals.
Most species that are capable of monopolizing space reproduce predominantly asexually.
