Antitrust

Word ANTITRUST
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Hyphenation antitrust
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Definitions and meanings of "Antitrust"

What do we mean by antitrust?

Opposing or intended to regulate business monopolies, such as trusts or cartels, especially in the interest of promoting competition. adjective

Opposed to the power or development of trusts, or of large combinations of capital.

Opposed to trusts, monopolies, or other large combinations of business or capital which threaten fair competition; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices; -- of laws and regulations. adjective

Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation. adjective

Of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices adjective

Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Antitrust

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The word "antitrust" in example sentences

Structural relief is a familiar concept in antitrust law, and was the way that the power of the railroads, Big Steel, Big Aluminum, and the old AT&T were finally brought under control, once it was finally clear that regulations could never control them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Institutional point about process: in most jurisdictions, antitrust is predominantly the business of the government. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

These companies would like to pretend that they want to collaborate to reduce costs, but antitrust is the obstacle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Avis, meanwhile, moved forward with its efforts to obtain antitrust approval and reiterated its commitment to sell assets representing $325 million of revenue as part of its Hertz bid. ❋ Doug Cameron (2010)

He returned after the war to attend law school, clerk on the Supreme Court, and become an expert in antitrust law in private practice, before being appointed a judge. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hence this has to be addressed in antitrust law to some extent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Used a group boycott against defiant department stores, which got them in antitrust trouble and shut them down. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

Clearwire said the move came "out of an abundance of caution to address questions raised by Clearwire regarding new developments in antitrust law," such as a recent decision involving the National Football League and how it relates to the Clayton Act. That law bars so-called interlocking directorships in order to preserve competition and avoid possible collusion or exchange of sensitive pricing information between rivals. ❋ Roger Cheng (2010)

News Corp.'s bid for BSkyB was referred to antitrust regulators, amid a political firestorm over reporting tactics of its News of the World tabloid. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The requests, a special kind of subpoena used in antitrust investigations, followed a complaint by [the Computer & Communications Industry Association — a group with many IBM rivals among its members] to the Justice Department accusing IBM of harming businesses by abusing its dominance of the market for mainframes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clearwire said that the resignations relate to addressing recent changes in antitrust laws, but the move could provide Clearwire added flexibility to pursue a deal. ❋ Roger Cheng (2010)

Rival chip maker AMD has attacked what it calls Intel's "grim reaper" e-mail destruction policies, exposed in antitrust litigation in federal court in Delaware. ❋ Unknown (2007)

IF it is not, then the government agenct that requires the software is complicent in antitrust activities. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Google News caught in Italian antitrust probe - By Tim Conneally, Betanews Following complaints from the Italian Newspaper Publisher's Federation (FIEG), Italian authorities have launched a probe to find out whether Google abuses its position of the world's most popular search engine to deprive others of advertising revenue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Ultimately, just using the terms antitrust and health insurers in the same sentence makes a great headline, but in practice given the narrow scope of the act, we doubt a repeal has meaningful implications for the publicly traded companies," it said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The staff tends to be more interested in long-term antitrust policy, †he said. “The political people have already moved on. †❋ Unknown (2008)

Anything interesting that happens in antitrust law usually comes from the DoJ or from the states.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic, called the antitrust proposals "woefully inadequate in counteracting the anticompetitive harm of a combined BA/AA." ❋ Peppi Kiviniemi (2010)

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