antitrust
antitrust — adjective
- antitrustpositive
- more antitrustcomparative
- most antitrustsuperlative
1. relating to laws and government actions that prevent large businesses from unfai
relating to laws and government actions that prevent large businesses from unfairly taking over a market, secretly agreeing on prices, or blocking other companies from competing fairly.
The antitrust investigation into the three tech companies lasted nearly two years.
Ada's law firm specializes in antitrust cases against large pharmaceutical corporations.
attributive noun: antitrust cases
The court's antitrust ruling forced the proposed merger to be abandoned.
Asher studied antitrust legislation in graduate school before joining the regulatory agency.
Critics argue that current antitrust laws are too weak to handle modern digital monopolies.
- anti-monopoly
Narrower in scope — focuses specifically on single-supplier dominance rather than other unfair practices like price-fixing.
- pro-competitive
Describes the intended outcome (promoting competition) rather than the legal framework itself.
- competition
Used in compounds like 'competition law'; more common in UK and EU legal contexts than US.
- anti-competitive
Describes the behaviour that antitrust laws are meant to prevent, not the laws themselves.
文法句型
antitrust + noun
用法筆記
Frequently used as an attributive adjective before nouns such as 'law', 'case', 'investigation', and 'policy'. Cannot be used predicatively with a complement (*The law is antitrust).