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.
Consisting of laws to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints and monopolies or unfair business practice.
Act a law passed in 1914 in the United States aimed at preventing monopolies from forming through mergers.
of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices
Laws governing unfair trade practices.
laws formulated to protect trade and commerce from unlawful or unfair business practices. These laws also attempt to curb monopolistic tendencies or to minimize the power stemming from monopolies.
Laws and regulations enacted to prevent Trusts and Large corporations from becoming monopolies and dominating an industry or service thus being able to control the economy.
Those laws designed to protect commerce and business from unlawful restraints, monopolies, or unfair business practices.
Activities to prevent business practices that restrain competition. (See trust .)
A legal term encompassing a variety of efforts on the part of government to assure that sellers do not conspire to restrain trade or fix prices for their goods or services in the market.