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monopolist|məˈnɒpəlɪst|
[f. monopole1 or monopoly + -ist. Cf. It. monopolista, G. monopolist.]
1. One who monopolizes or possesses a monopoly; one who favours monopoly.
1601J. Wheeler Treat. Comm. 72 By this means..the Hanses should..possesse the whole trade of the realme, as Monopolists of the whole kingdom. 1648Gage West Ind. xii. 61 The Marquesse of Serralvo..was the best Monopolist of salt that ever those parts knew. 1671W. Perwich Despatches (R. Hist. Soc.) 148 The army has been sickly, & the monopolist that undertook the furnishing them with provision is much blamed. 1775Burke Sp. Concil. Amer. Wks. III. 63 To raise the value of the possessions in the hands of the great private monopolists. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxx, We know what monopolists are: men who want to keep a trade all to themselves, under the pretence that they'll furnish the public with a better article. 1885Law Times LXXVIII. 222/1 An absolute right to refuse to supply a prime necessary of life is a dangerous weapon indeed with which to arm a monopolist.
2. transf. One who obtains, assumes, or occupies anything to the exclusion of others.
1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 508 Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists; It calls for two. 1781Cowper Conversat. 627 When some green heads..Suppose themselves monopolists of sense. 1813Byron Corsair iii. vi, The life thou leav'st below, denied above By kind monopolists of heavenly love. 1817Keats Wks. (1889) III. 5 He feels his being as deeply as Wordsworth, or any other of our intellectual monopolists. 1866Bright Sp., Reform 4 Dec. (1876) 392 The monopolists of political power.
3. attrib. passing into adj.
1844Cobden in Pall Mall G. (1891) 16 Oct. 3/1 Those monopolist humbugs, who are ready to hurrah for free trade in China, and vote against it in England. 1879G. Allen Col. Sense i. 1 The pleasure of colour is one which raises itself above the common level of monopolist gratification, and attains to the higher plane of æsthetic delight. 1887Westm. Rev. June 327 The immunities..conceded to the members of that monopolist corporation. |