anti-competitive
Stifling fair markets
Anti-competitive describes business practices that undermine fair competition in a market.
Companies engage in anti-competitive behavior when they collude to fix prices, create monopolies, or use their dominance to crush smaller rivals: The merger was blocked on anti-competitive grounds.
Regulators and antitrust laws exist to prevent such practices.
One seller, no substitutes
- oligopolyFew firms dominate market
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- lock-inEnforced continued commitment
- strangleholdOppressive, unbreakable control
Price-fixing coalition
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
- price-fixingCoordinated artificial cost-setting
- bid-riggingIllegal auction coordination
- tyingForming a knot
Against corporate market dominance
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- penaltiesPunishments for infractions
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
divestiture · injunction · FTC · whistleblower · class-action
monopoly
One seller, no substitutes
cartel
Price-fixing coalition
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
- price-fixingCoordinated artificial cost-setting
- bid-riggingIllegal auction coordination
antitrust
Against corporate market dominance
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- penaltiesPunishments for infractions
prohibition · divestiture · injunction · FTC · whistleblower · class-action
- monopolymonopoly, monopolization, market power, market dominance, market concentration
- antitrustantitrust, price fixing, cartel, collusion, antitrust laws
anti-competitivecompetitive
Driven by rivalry
free-market · deregulated · liberalized · open · level playing field
anti-competitivefree-market
Unregulated private exchange
neoliberal · entrepreneurial · capitalist · libertarian · deregulatory