antitrust
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
antitrust (not comparable)
- (law) Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation.
- The regulators used antitrust laws to block the merger, believing it would eliminate competition.
- 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:
- If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
TranslationsEdit
opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts
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See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
antitrust (plural antitrusts)
Further readingEdit
- “antitrust”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
PortugueseEdit
AdjectiveEdit
antitrust (invariable, comparable)
- Alternative form of antitruste
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English antitrust.
AdjectiveEdit
antitrust m or f or n (indeclinable)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of antitrust (invariable)
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