anti-monopoly
Opposing market dominance
Anti-monopoly describes opposition to monopolies—businesses or entities that dominate a market to the exclusion of competition.
Anti-monopoly laws and regulations aim to prevent any single company from controlling an industry: The government filed an anti-monopoly suit against the tech giant.
The term appears in legal, economic, and political contexts where market concentration is debated.
Federal antitrust statute
- Federal Trade CommissionAgency overseeing marketplace fairness
- trust-bustingDissolving illegal monopolies
- litigationLegal dispute process
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
injunction · consent decree · enforcement · compliance · cartels · price-fixing · collusion · restraint of trade
Equal competitive conditions
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- fair playHonorable conduct in games
- consumer protectionLaws defending purchasers' interests
- equal opportunityUnbiased chance for all
non-discrimination · transparency · accountability · balance · openness · small business · fair dealing · predatory pricing
Venue for trade
- rivalsThose who compete
- challengersThose who compete against
- competitorsThose seeking same goal
- barriersThings blocking access
entry · dominance · pricing · innovation · alternatives · choice · diversity · entrepreneurs
Clayton Act
Federal antitrust statute
- Federal Trade CommissionAgency overseeing marketplace fairness
- trust-bustingDissolving illegal monopolies
- litigationLegal dispute process
prosecution · injunction · consent decree · enforcement · compliance · cartels · price-fixing · collusion · restraint of trade · divestiture
level playing field
Equal competitive conditions
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- fair playHonorable conduct in games
- consumer protectionLaws defending purchasers' interests
equal opportunity · non-discrimination · transparency · accountability · balance · openness · small business · fair dealing · predatory pricing · abuse of power
market
Venue for trade
- rivalsThose who compete
- challengersThose who compete against
- competitorsThose seeking same goal
barriers · entry · dominance · pricing · innovation · alternatives · choice · diversity · entrepreneurs · startups
- business termsfranchising, revenue stream, board meeting, gross margin, markdown
- Jacksonian EraAndrew Jackson, Democratic Party, spoils system, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears
- distributismsubsidiarity, private property, small enterprise, family business, smallholding
anti-monopolymonopolist
Sole market controller
protectionist · anti-competitive · corporatist · monopolistic · market concentration
anti-monopolylaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
deregulatory · hands-off · anti-regulation · unregulated · supply-side