anticompetitive
Blocking fair rivalry
Anticompetitive describes business practices that undermine fair competition in a market.
Price-fixing, monopolistic mergers, and agreements to divide territories are anticompetitive behaviors that regulators seek to prevent.
The lawsuit alleged anticompetitive conduct by the tech giant.
The term appears frequently in antitrust law and economic policy discussions.
Coordinated artificial cost-setting
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- predatory pricingBelow-cost selling to eliminate competition
- tyingForming a knot
One seller, no substitutes
- oligopolyFew firms dominate market
- market dominanceControl over a sector
- barriers to entryFactors blocking market access
- market concentrationExtent of seller dominance
market power · duopoly · vertical integration · conglomerate · entrenchment · natural monopoly · market consolidation · network effects
Tending to bar others
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
- discriminatoryShowing unfair distinction
- manipulativeSkilled at controlling others
- coerciveUsing pressure to compel
retaliatory · deceptive · unfair · exploitative · leveraging · squeezing · cornering · undercutting
Against corporate market dominance
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
consent decree · divestiture · remedies · injunction · investigation · settlement · penalty · filing
Excessive pricing during crises
- overchargeDemand excessive payment
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
price-fixing
Coordinated artificial cost-setting
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- predatory pricingBelow-cost selling to eliminate competition
tying · bid rigging · boycott · bundling · price discrimination
monopoly
One seller, no substitutes
- oligopolyFew firms dominate market
- market dominanceControl over a sector
- barriers to entryFactors blocking market access
market concentration · market power · duopoly · vertical integration · conglomerate · entrenchment · natural monopoly · market consolidation · network effects · economies of scale
exclusionary
Tending to bar others
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
- discriminatoryShowing unfair distinction
- manipulativeSkilled at controlling others
coercive · retaliatory · deceptive · unfair · exploitative · leveraging · squeezing · cornering · undercutting · freezing out
antitrust
Against corporate market dominance
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
oversight · consent decree · divestiture · remedies · injunction · investigation · settlement · penalty · filing · clearance
price gouging
Excessive pricing during crises
- overchargeDemand excessive payment
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- antitrustantitrust, price fixing, cartel, collusion, antitrust laws
anticompetitivecompetitive
Driven by rivalry
free-market · open · unrestricted · accessible · level playing field
compete, competition, competitor, competitive, competing, competitiveness, uncompetitive, noncompetitive, noncompetition