trust busting

Cultural  

1. Government activities aimed at breaking up monopolies and trusts. (See antitrust legislation.)

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Example Sentences

The Gilded Age was swept aside by Progressive elements of both parties, with trust busting and the establishment of business regulation, the national income tax and Federal Reserve.

From Seattle Times

So it’s not just Big Tech that needs the equivalent of trust busting — something I proposed in a column a year ago.

From Seattle Times

Liberals would have to win many national elections to enact Progressive Era trust busting.

From Seattle Times

But what’s really needed is a modern equivalent of the trust busting of a century ago.

From Seattle Times

The collapse of the merger had more to do with the specifics of this particular deal than a return to the 1970s, when the federal government last engaged in energetic trust busting.

From Time