antitrust legislation

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Laws passed in the United States, especially between 1890 and 1915, to prevent large business corporations, called trusts, from combining into monopolies to restrict competition. The laws were instituted to encourage free enterprise. (See also trust busting.)

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notes for antitrust legislation

The enforcement of antitrust laws has been inconsistent.

notes for antitrust legislation

Although the Bell Telephone system was declared a monopoly and forced to break up, huge corporations continue to merge.

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How to use antitrust legislation in a sentence

Or (horrors) he could reach out to congressional leaders in both parties to pursue bipartisan legislation.
Obama’s Pot Policy Is Refer Madness|James Poulos|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
As long ago as the early 1970s, he had gone on to support most civil rights-related legislation.
Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game|Michael Tomasky|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
According to the AP, as of October, there were only four people still alive who be affected by this legislation.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive|Ben Jacobs|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The legislation strengthens and updates a previous version of the bill that expired in 2011.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive|Ben Jacobs|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

We may never know the full amount that the Kochs or other outside spenders donate to advance anti-union legislation.
The Next Phase of the Koch Brothers’ War on Unions|Carl Deal and Tia Lessin|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The act, however, is a progressive piece of legislation and creates new conditions as the result of its own operation.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Hereditary legislation in the twentieth century and the most civilized country in the world!
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Foot and mouth disease had for some time been rife in Great Britain and Ireland, and legislation became necessary.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
After this Act, and until the year 1888, no further general railway legislation of importance took place.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
It is no part of the present essay to attempt to detail the particulars of a code of social legislation.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock