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oligopolize

oligopolize verb: to convert a market into an oligopoly.

Verb

oligopolize (third-person singular simple present oligopolizes, present participle oligopolizing, simple past and past participle oligopolized)

  1. (transitive) To convert a market into an oligopoly.
    • Also, another reason to oligopolize is uncertainity^([sic]) of world economy because of value of the US high dollar.1987, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth, United States-Japanese Trade in Semiconductors: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on...
    • Japanese trading companies and large seafood companies responded with attempts to monopolize or oligopolize import and sales routes.2006, Japan Environemntal Council (JEC), The State of Environment in Asia: 2005/2006, Springer Science & Business Media, page 47

Forms of oligopolize

third-person singular presentoligopolizes
present participleoligopolizing
past participleoligopolized
pastoligopolized

Origin of oligopolize

From oligopoly + -ize.

Questions about oligopolize

What does oligopolize mean?
Oligopolize means to convert a market into an oligopoly.
What part of speech is oligopolize?
Oligopolize is a verb.
What is the past tense of oligopolize?
The past tense of oligopolize is oligopolized.

Words near oligopolize in the dictionary

  1. oligopolisms
  2. oligopolist
  3. oligopolistic
  4. oligopolistically
  5. oligopolists
  6. oligopolize
  7. oligopolized
  8. oligopolizes
  9. oligopolizing
  10. oligopolous
  11. oligopoly

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