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free marketeering

free marketeering noun: belief in a free market model of economy; the exploitation of a market in which trade is subject to little or no regulation by government.

Noun

free marketeering (uncountable)

  1. Belief in a free market model of economy; the exploitation of a market in which trade is subject to little or no regulation by government.
    • There shall be consultative mechanisms set up in which organised agriculture, mining, commerce, banking and industry participates to advise the Government on the best ways to avoid the dangers of free marketeering and exploitation on the one hand and the dangers of State control that curbs...1990, “The 1990 Inkatha Declaration” in Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South Africa: My Vision of the Future, New York: St. Martin’s Press, p. 141
    • […] what the British and American leaders will be attempting at the G-20 conference […] will be to begin building a new global financial system that curbs the rampant and often conscienceless free-marketeering of the past 20 years with a new sense of accountability and restraint […]2009 March 28, John F. Burns, Landon Thomas Jr., “Anglo-American Capitalism on Trial”, in The New York Times

Origin of free marketeering

From free marketeer + -ing.

Questions about free marketeering

What does free marketeering mean?
Free marketeering means belief in a free market model of economy; the exploitation of a market in which trade is subject to little or no regulation by government.
What part of speech is free marketeering?
Free marketeering is a noun.

Words near free marketeering in the dictionary

  1. free lovers
  2. free lunch
  3. free lunches
  4. free market
  5. free marketeer
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  8. free markets
  9. free mixing
  10. free module
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