antitrust
antitrust — 形容詞
- antitrustpositive
- more antitrustcomparative
- most antitrustsuperlative
1. relating to laws and government actions that prevent large businesses from unfai
反壟斷的
防止企業壟斷或聯手操控價格的
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.
針對這三家科技公司的反壟斷調查持續了將近兩年。
Ada's law firm specializes in antitrust cases against large pharmaceutical corporations.
Ada 任職的律師事務所專門處理大型藥廠的反壟斷案件。
attributive noun: antitrust cases
The court's antitrust ruling forced the proposed merger to be abandoned.
法院的反壟斷裁決迫使這項合併案被放棄。
Asher studied antitrust legislation in graduate school before joining the regulatory agency.
Asher 在進入監管機構之前，曾在研究所修讀反壟斷法規。
Critics argue that current antitrust laws are too weak to handle modern digital monopolies.
批評者認為，現行的反壟斷法過於寬鬆，無法應對現代的數位壟斷問題。
- 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).