unmonopolize
English
Alternative forms
unmonopolise
Etymology
From un- + monopolize.
Verb
unmonopolize (third-person singular simple present unmonopolizes, present participle unmonopolizing, simple past and past participle unmonopolized)
- (transitive) To remove a monopoly of.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, 2nd book, page 71:
- and unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry, from the greasie clutch of ignorance,
References
- “unmonopolize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.