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say it: muh-nah-puh-li-ZAY-shuhn
monopolization is a noun meaning "domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others". It is pronounced /məˌnɑpəlɪˈzeɪʃən/ — muh-nah-puh-li-ZAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for monopolization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.