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monopolizer|məˈnɒpəlaɪzə(r)| Also monopoliser. [f. monopolize v. + -er1.] One who monopolizes.
1629Gaule Holy Madn. 389 Now an Ingrosser..now an Haberdasher of small wares..nay worse than these..a Monopolizer. 1651G. W. tr. Cowel's Inst. 283 Monopolizers, who were called Ingrossers, Fore-stallers, and Regrators,..and many others who are punishable by Imprisonment and the Pillory. 1668Charleton, etc. Ephes. & Cimm. Matrons ii. Pref., I am no Monopolizer of such Commodities. 1734Fielding Univ. Gallant iv. Wks. 1882 X. 95, I wonder he escapes being destroyed by the men as a monopolizer [of the women]. 1760Chron. in Ann. Reg. 96 Some Armenians..bought up great quantities of grain... Several monopolizers have been put to death. 1769F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague cxcv. (1784) IV. 47, I am a most intolerable monopolizer of the sex; in short, I have very little relish for any conversation but theirs. 1779W. Smith in 15th Rep. R. Comm. Hist. Manuscripts App. vi. 429 in Parl. Papers 1897 (C. 8551) LI. 1 The common people sick of the War, and think they are made a prey of by commissaries, quarter-masters, forage-masters, monopolisers, schemers, &c., &c. 1812Examiner 25 May 327/1 The..avarice of an hard-hearted monopolizer. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. ii. 88 The nobles..were, at that period, the monopolizers of political power. 1877F. A. S. Hewitt in Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 372 It is the fashion to denounce these corporations as monopolizers. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. v. ii. (1881) 259 The extent to which the monopolizers of land, can, in rent, levy tribute upon the earnings of labor. |