unfair competition

noun

1. acts done by a seller to confuse or deceive the public with intent to acquire a larger portion of the market, as by cutting prices below cost, misleading advertising, selling a spurious product under a false identity, etc.
2. the use of any such methods.

Example Sentences

Instead, she said when regulators like the FTC evaluate unfair competition, they should recognize the drastically evolving realities of the tech industry right now — and in the future.

From Digiday

Toptal also alleges interference with contract, unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets.

From TechCrunch

In March the company was slapped with the fine for unfair competition practices.

From Time

The company, based in Mountain View, California, has long denied the claims of unfair competition.

From Fortune

Industry lobbyists have argued that those laws are necessary to protect companies like Comcast, Charter, and AT&T against unfair competition from local governments.

From Quartz

How to prevent us heading for a world of scarce resources, unfair competition, and geopolitical battles?

From The Daily Beast

The Great Depression, his advisors believed, was being caused by "unfair competition".

From The Daily Beast

The unfair competition, proceeding from the voluntary labor, in mechanical ways, of women well to do.

From Project Gutenberg

Were people in general not willing accomplices, there would be no sweating system, no unfair competition.

From Project Gutenberg

The adult journalist in the 'nineties was not to suffer from this unfair competition for a good many years to come.

From Project Gutenberg

Their profits have been so reduced by unfair competition that they are not sufficient to pay the cost of doing business.

From Project Gutenberg

And then when unfair competition is eliminated, let us see these gentlemen carry their tanks of water on their backs.

From Project Gutenberg