trustification

American  

[truhs-tuh-fi-key-shuhn] / ˌtrʌs tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts.

   the trustification of the oil business.

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Etymology

Origin of trustification

1900–05; trust + -i- ( def. ) + -fication ( def. )

Example Sentences

Though high production costs and what Williams calls "trustification" have killed more than 475 newspapers in Britain and the U.S. in the past 35 years, he argues that it is "not the one-sidedness of the monopoly newspaper that contains the greatest threat to local democracy now, but its circumspect neutrality in many matters where the clash of opinion is desirable."

From Time Magazine Archive

We are against the autocracy of money and the trustification of industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the details of the great reorganization and trustification deals put through since 1885 could be laid bare, eight out of ten of our most successful stock-jobbing financiers would be in a fair way to get into State or federal prisons.

From Project Gutenberg

For the development of the various schemes of consolidation, trustification, and amalgamation in which Wall Street profits are made, money is required in large quantities.

From Project Gutenberg

Some one invented water-gas and "let in" Addicks on the invention; and the Philadelphia branch of the "Standard Oil," represented by Widener, Elkins, and Dolan, "trustified" the gas companies of the city of Chicago, which enabled Addicks to "hold up" the "trustification" until Dolan and Dolan's associates paid him the sum of $300,000 for the instrument with which he had done the holding up, $10,000 worth of the stock of one of the necessary Chicago companies.

From Project Gutenberg