monopolisticallyadv.

1878 Carmarthen Jrnl. 12 Apr. 7/1 It [sc. the movement to increase the crop of salmon] secures the protection of the breeding fish,..and then it monopolistically, and arbitrarily forbids the reaping of the matured crop in the estuaries by stake-nets.

1906 Philos. Rev. 15 116 Sensationalist and idealist..have been at one in their devotion to an identification of reality which connects monopolistically with passionless knowledge.

1923 Glasgow Herald 30 July 6 We need no longer cry out to obstructive departmental control and monopolistically inclined private enterprise—‘A plague on both your houses.’

1957 K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism ii. 45 They [sc. industries] were for the most part either directly managed or monopolistically controlled by the hydraulic governments.

1991 Sc. Banker Aug. 14/2 Whether or not they have been behaving monopolistically, the banks could have got away with the interest rates they are charging only if they had provided a better all-round service to small business customers.