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n. - Someone who single-handedly controls the means of producing or selling something.

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  • State is ever what he made it, that is to say a monopolizer, convinced that its rights are illimitable and that its interference everywhere is legitimate, accustomed to...
  • Besides all this, Mr Snapley was a miserable monopolizer of pompously advanced nothings.
  • When a woman sees her guests are led by a monopolizer along unsafe channels of thought, she can easily, by that happy faculty of hers, bring them back again where all...
  • She was a great monopolizer: she did not wish one thought of his to be won away from her by another woman; and a sort of irritable feeling came upon her even when she...
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