oligopolize

present singular third person oligopolizes · participle present oligopolizing · participle past oligopolized · past oligopolized

1. transitiveTo convert a market into an oligopoly.

   Also, another reason to oligopolize is uncertainity^([sic]) of world economy because of value of the US high dollar.

   1987, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth, United States-Japanese Trade in Semiconductors: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, October 10, 1985

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   Japanese trading companies and large seafood companies responded with attempts to monopolize or oligopolize import and sales routes.

   2006, Japan Environemntal Council (JEC), The State of Environment in Asia: 2005/2006, Springer Science & Business Media, page 47

   It is, of course, possible for an enterprising body to highly diversify its business into various industries and concurrently to oligopolize some of the industries, but it is rather rare.

   2018, Takashi Shiraishi, Approaching Suharto's Indonesia from the Margins, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 152