Definition of "monopolizer" []

• One who monopolizes. (noun)

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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 governing all it can and leaving to individuals only the smallest portion of themselves, hostile to all bodies that might interpose between them and it, distrustful and ill-disposed towards all groups capable of collective action and spontaneous initiation, especially as concerns proprietary bodies."
• "Benne and Sheats (1948) proposed that group members who exert leadership play three types of functional roles: (1) group-task roles, such as initiator, gatekeeper, and summarizer; (2) group-building and group-maintenance roles, such as harmonizer, supporter, and tension reducer; and (3) individual roles, such as blocker, pleader, and monopolizer."
• "He was in his sophomore year when he was diagnosed as "having problems that indicate behavior modification, perhaps in a modular-flexible schedule on which an aggressive monopolizer would diminish his role and force him 'to accept a lesser role in a nonpunitive, restraining, yet pleasant way.""