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oligopolize en · VERB

Etymology

From oligopoly + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To convert a market into an oligopoly.
   • It is, of course, possible for an enterprising body to highly diversify its business into various industries and concurrently to oligopolize some of the industries, but it is rather rare. 2018, Takashi Shiraishi, Approaching Suharto's Indonesia from the Margins, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 152:
   • 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
   • 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 Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, October 10, 1985:

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