"oligopolize" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Also, another reason to oligopolize is uncertainity^([sic]) of world economy because of value of the US high dollar.",
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          "ref": "2006, Japan Environemntal Council (JEC), The State of Environment in Asia: 2005/2006, Springer Science & Business Media, page 47",
          "text": "Japanese trading companies and large seafood companies responded with attempts to monopolize or oligopolize import and sales routes."
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          "ref": "2018, Takashi Shiraishi, Approaching Suharto's Indonesia from the Margins, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 152:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To convert a market into an oligopoly."
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        "(transitive) To convert a market into an oligopoly."
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        "(transitive) To convert a market into an oligopoly."
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