0 relating to efforts to prevent companies from working together to control prices unfairly or to create a monopoly (= a single company or group of companies that is the only supplier of something)
1 involving laws or actions that are intended to make business competition fair and to prevent any company from being a monopoly:
The government is expanding its antitrust investigation against Microsoft.
2 relating to efforts to prevent companies from working together to control prices unfairly or to create a monopoly (= a single company or small group of companies that is the only supplier of something):
While social responsibility informed the development of these plans, corporate officials viewed them primarily as a defense against unions and government antitrust initiatives.
From a legal standpoint, the shared ownership and coordination of formally ' competitive' entities introduces the risk of antitrust campaigns.
There was a long list of antitrust offences of which the petroleum companies were purportedly guilty, and one of these was exchange agreements.
His research and publications are in the areas of law and economics, moral philosophy, tax policy, and antitrust.
What is the impact of antitrust law on provider behaviour?
Agrarian antitrust doctrine rejected outright the practice of reasonable restraint, insisting instead on free and unrestricted competition in interstate commerce.
In early 2002, a lawsuit charged that the match system violated antitrust laws.
Most state antitrust laws prohibited two manufacturers of a product in the state from agreeing on prices and production.
