MONOPOLISE  壟斷專／主

CONTROL AND NOT PERMIT OTHERS TO CONTROL.
Hypernym
  • CONTROLINTERACT so as to CAUSE TO BE OR ACT RESEMBLE:as one DESIRES.
    • INTERACTACT so as to CAUSE ANOTHER TO REACT.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The most general word for taking sovereign charge of something is probably zhǔ 主.

2. Zhuān 專 emphasises that one takes exclusive control, by whatever means.

3. Shàn 擅 emphasises the improper arrogation of monopolised control.

4. Cuàn 篡 suggests the violent arrogation of monopolised power.

Modern Chinese Criteria
專制

獨裁

專斷

專命

專權

專擅

專輒

自專

擅權

擅斷

武斷

獨斷

一言堂

獨斷獨行

獨行其是

一意孤行

一手遮天

孤行己見

獨攬大權

大權獨攬

不容置喙

生殺予奪

朕即國家

把持 is a lively modern word for strong monopolising control.

壟斷 is the standard modern word for monopolising.

霸據 (lit) focusses on the aspect of domination.

獨佔

獨占

把攬

收攬

總攬

獨攬

攬

專

霸

據

把

佔

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

Words

專  zhuān OC: tjon MC: tɕiɛn 26 Attributions

Zhuān 專 emphasises that one takes exclusive control, by whatever means.

    Word relations
  • Object: 權/POWER Quán 權 refers to one's political leverage or one's formal position of power.
  • Object: 法/LAW The current general word for a law, a legal system or any legal provision of any kind is fǎ 法.
  • Epithet: 制/CONTROL The most current general word in this group is zhì 制 (ant. zòng 縱 "give free rein to"), which refers to all kinds of control, political, physical, as well as psychological.
  • Epithet: 獨/ALONE Dú 獨 (ant. ǒu 偶 "as a pair") usually has no nuances of loneliness, but can sometimes come to connote an intense feeling of personal uniqueness. (LAO) [GENERAL], [NEGATIVE!]

    Syntactic words
  • vadNmonopolised
  • vadV"monopolisingly"> on one's own authority; improperly monopolising power
  • vpostadVexclusively
  • vt+prep+Nhold a monopoly of control over
  • vt[oN]monopolise power
  • vtoNmonopolise, keep a monopoly for, control to the exclusion of others
擅  shàn OC: djans MC: dʑiɛn 10 Attributions

Shàn 擅 emphasises the improper arrogation of monopolised control.

    Syntactic words
  • vt[oN]exercise autonomous control
  • vtoNdeploy (one's proper authority) freely; gain sole control of
主  zhǔ OC: tjoʔ MC: tɕi̯o 4 Attributions

The most general word for taking sovereign charge of something is probably zhǔ 主.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNmonopolise, take sole charge of
籠  lóng OC: b-rooŋ MC: luŋ 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNmonopolise
專制  zhuān zhì OC: tjon kjeds MC: tɕiɛn tɕiɛi 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPimonopolise control over things

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: