antitrust

From anti- + trust.

• IPA^(key): /ˌæntiˈtɹʌst/

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antitrust (not comparable)

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

   The regulators used antitrust laws to block the merger, believing it would eliminate competition.

   • 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 410, number 8878, archived from the original on 18 May 2020:

     If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

   • 2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 January 2022:

     When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.

• antimonopoly

From anti- +‎ trust.

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antitrust (plural antitrusts)

1. antitrust

• “antitrust”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

antitrust (invariable)

1. alternative form of antitruste

• “antitrust”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English antitrust. By surface analysis, anti- +‎ trust.

antitrust m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. antitrust

From English antitrust

antitrust (invariable)

1. antitrust

• “antitrust”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025