unfair practice

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noun

any practice in business involving the general public or competing parties that is prohibited by statute and regulated by an appropriate government agency.

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THINGAMABOB OR THINGUMMY: CAN YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE US AND UK TERMS IN THIS QUIZ?

Do you know the difference between everyday US and UK terminology? Test yourself with this quiz on words that differ across the Atlantic.

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In the UK, COTTON CANDY is more commonly known as…

candystring

candyfloss

candypuff

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Words nearby unfair practice

unfaced, unfact, unfailing, unfair, unfair competition, unfair practice, unfaith, unfaithful, unfamiliar, unfancied, unfashionable

How to use unfair practice in a sentence

If an employee believes the union breached its duty of fair representation, he or she can file an unfair practice charge with that agency, De La Torre said.
Faculty Union Defends Its Defense of Professor Who Harassed Students|Kayla Jimenez|June 11, 2021|Voice of San Diego
De La Torre said the agency won’t take action against a union unless an employee files an unfair practice charge.
Faculty Union Defends Its Defense of Professor Who Harassed Students|Kayla Jimenez|June 11, 2021|Voice of San Diego
Federal law bans “unfair methods of competition” and “unfair or deceptive acts or practices,” and the definitions of those unfair practices have largely been left to courts and the merits of individual cases.
Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption becomes the next target of the culture wars|Peter Stevenson|April 16, 2021|Washington Post
As the tax revision wars wound down, he refocused on trade, representing a coalition of American steel companies charging foreign competitors with benefitting from unfair practices like government subsidies.
Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.|by Lydia DePillis|October 13, 2020|ProPublica

The social media giant is already in the middle of an anti-trust probe in the US over accusations of unfair practices, among other things.
Allegations of favouritism in India couldn’t have come at a worse time for Facebook|Niharika Sharma|August 18, 2020|Quartz
There can be no pleasure in playing with a person once detected in such unfair practice.
The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, [Vol 3 of 3]|Benjamin Franklin
There can be no pleasure in playing with a person once detected in such an unfair practice.
Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2)|Wiliam Cabell Bruce
Rabbits had palled on Saladin, owing to their absurd and unfair practice of running underground.
It Never Can Happen Again|William De Morgan