| 单词 | monopolize |
| 释义 | monopolize (mənɒpəlaɪz ) Word forms: monopolizes , monopolizing , monopolized regional note: in BRIT, also use monopolise 1. verb If you say that someone monopolizes something, you mean that they have a very large share of it and prevent other people from having a share. They are controlling so much cocoa that they are virtually monopolizing the market. [VERB noun] Johnson, as usual, monopolized the conversation. [VERB noun] Synonyms: control, corner, take over, dominate monopolization (mənɒpəlaɪzeɪʃən ) uncountable noun ...the monopolization of a market by a single supplier. [+ of] 2. verb If something or someone monopolizes you, they demand a lot of your time and attention, so that there is very little time left for anything or anyone else. He would monopolize her totally, to the exclusion of her brothers and sisters. [VERB noun] Synonyms: keep to yourself, corner, hog [slang], engross Collocations: monopolize power It also showed that the dominant party no longer felt that it could monopolize power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Was she, as many historians have supposed, so intent on monopolizing power that she left the real problems of the age unresolved? The Times Literary Supplement This can create royal dynasties, resulting in some dictatorship monopolizing power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One of his ministers described him as a man equally incapable of monopolizing power as of sharing it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 垄断 Japanese: 独占する |
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