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Grammar : Verb
Spell : muh-nop-uh-lahyz
Phonetic Transcription : məˈnɒp əˌlaɪz

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Définition of monopolizing

Origin :
  • 1610s; see monopoly + -ize. Figurative use from 1620s. Related: Monopolized; monopolizing; monopolization.
  • verb dominate, control
Example sentences :
  • She couldn't have, or she would at least have made some effort to prevent Eileen from monopolizing you.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • He smiled and added, "I should be monopolizing the time which belongs to your company."
  • Extract from : « Eventide » by Effie Afton
  • I was savagely glad that he did not succeed in monopolizing Leah; not even I could do that.
  • Extract from : « The Martian » by George Du Maurier
  • Monopolizing the coupe, she became absolute mistress of the situation.
  • Extract from : « The Parisians, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • There are, in fact, no immense estates grasping nearly the whole of a district; no monopolizing farmers, nor dealers in grain.
  • Extract from : « Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton » by John Barrow
  • She will have it that he is jealous and monopolizing, and that he distrusts her.
  • Extract from : « Our Bessie » by Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • Perhaps men are in the way, monopolizing all the best things.
  • Extract from : « That Fortune » by Charles Dudley Warner
  • And to the mind, too, that conceived the idea of seizing and monopolizing it as a title.
  • Extract from : « Christian Science » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • If dad requires all the dots I'm sure Jack is monopolizing the dashes.
  • Extract from : « The Pillar of Light » by Louis Tracy
  • Just now Selby is monopolizing the field of American fiction.
  • Extract from : « A Fortnight of Folly » by Maurice Thompson

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