Sentence examples for monopolizer from inspiring English sources
noun
One who monopolizes.
- I didn't mean to be a conversational monopolizer, hogging a rare chance to talk to the company founder, I just found him the only interesting person in the room to talk to.
In such cases, Ms. Hathaway recommends that the executive holding the meeting interrupt the monopolizer, "try to summarize what he's saying in 10 words or less, and then move the discussion back".
It's O.K. to interrupt a monopolizer, Mr. Parker said.
The Palestinians should reject the American role as "sole monopolizer of the peace process" and bring the United Nations, the European Union and Russia into the talks, he said.
Similarly, he said, if a monopolizer or anyone else goes off on a tangent, you can say something like: "I may be wrong here, but I thought we were supposed to be dealing with customer complaints.
"Recently at San Juan market in Mexico City, monopolizers informed us that small airplanes loaded with tons of the product arrived from the United States and sold it to the highest bidders," Ramos-Elorduy wrote in a 2006 paper.
How do you get them to stop? A. Monopolizers need to be reined in because they rarely have the self-awareness to stop talking themselves, said Glenn Parker, a team-building consultant in Skillman, N.J., and co-author of "Meeting Excellence".
Chemical companies engaged in "biopiracy"; they were killers of monarch butterflies, engineers of future "superweeds," and according to Jeremy Rifkin, the prominent biotech opponent, monopolizers of an insidious technology that posed "as serious a threat to the existence of life on the planet as the bomb itself".
Three of this year's seven co-winners of the World Open Tournament in Philadelphia are establishing an informal club of would-be monopolizers of this series.
