trust busting

Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

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 • Mar. 12, 2019

At some level, it's a return to the good old days of trust busting, something scarcely seen in the U.S. since the government's case against IBM sputtered out in the early 1980s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lawyers Fly & Rice are not new to trust busting.

From Time Magazine Archive

But "trust busting" became an even more popular and political pursuit.

From A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States by Juglar, Clément