Meanings
present singular third person monopolizes · participle present monopolizing · participle past monopolized · past monopolized · alternative monopolise
- transitiveTo have a monopoly on something.
- transitiveTo dominate or to get total control of something by excluding everyone else.
Teachers try not to let any one student monopolize a class discussion.
1 more example
"Now, Mr. Malone, I have given you rather more of my time than I had intended. The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world."
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic اِحْتَكَرَ
- اِحْتَكَرَ (iḥtakara)have a monopoly
Bulgarian монополизирам
- монополизирам (monopoliziram)have a monopoly
Catalan monopolitzar, monopolitzar
- monopolitzarhave a monopoly
- monopolitzardominate
Chinese Mandarin 壟斷 /垄断
- 壟斷 /垄断 (lǒngduàn)have a monopoly
Danish monopolisere
- monopoliserehave a monopoly
Dutch monopoliseren, opkopen
- monopoliserenhave a monopoly
- opkopendominate
Finnish monopolisoida, olla monopoli
- monopolisoidahave a monopoly
- olla monopolihave a monopoly
- dominoidadominate
- hallitadominate
French monopoliser, accaparer
- monopoliserhave a monopoly
- accaparerhave a monopoly
- accaparerdominate
German monopolisieren, monopolisieren
- monopolisierenhave a monopoly
- monopolisierendominate
- beherrschendominate
Italian monopolizzare, monopolizzare
- monopolizzarehave a monopoly
- monopolizzaredominate
Māori makitaunu, makitaunu
- makitaunuhave a monopoly
- makitaunudominate
Portuguese monopolizar, monopolizar
- monopolizarhave a monopoly
- monopolizardominate
Russian монополизи́ровать
- монополизи́ровать (monopolizírovatʹ)have a monopoly
Spanish monopolizar, monopolizar
- monopolizarhave a monopoly
- monopolizardominate
- acaparardominate
Swedish monopolisera
- monopoliserahave a monopoly
Thai ผูกขาด
- ผูกขาด (pùuk-kàat)have a monopoly
Cite this entry
monopolize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monopolize
“monopolize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monopolize. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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