perfect competition
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Maybe that's not perfect competition in the economic sense.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2018
The more closely the world can be made to resemble an ideal market governed only by perfect competition, the more law-like and “scientific” human behaviour, in the aggregate, becomes.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017
In perfect competition, a business is so focused on today’s margins that it can’t possibly plan for a long-term future.
From Time ● Mar. 11, 2015
But the gasoline market is unusual for retail products to the extent to which it approximates a textbook case of perfect competition.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2012
Crowded as the city was, there was a perfect competition among the tradesfolk for the honour of entertaining him and the young widow and child of a St. Bartholomew martyr.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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