trustbuster
trustbuster noun: a person or entity responsible for breaking up trusts or monopolies.
Noun
trustbuster (plural trustbusters)
- A person or entity responsible for breaking up trusts or monopolies.
- America’s top trustbusters mean to make their policing presence felt. Lawyers, bankers and financiers now “recognise that there are cops on the beat…that we’re vigorously looking to protect the American public from illegal mergers,” says Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which...2023 June 21, “Why Joe Biden’s trustbusters have fallen short of their ambitions”, in The Economist, →ISSN
- Britain’s chief trustbuster is sitting in a meeting room at the CMA’s head office after a whirlwind morning of broadcast interviews about its latest intervention, this time in the market for baby milk formula.2025 February 18, John Collingridge, “‘We must avoid a chilling effect’: the CMA chief on the UK’s pro-growth shift”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian (Business section), London: Guardian...
Forms of trustbuster
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Origin of trustbuster
From trust + buster. Initially used with reference to the antitrust policies of Theodore Roosevelt.
Questions about trustbuster
- What does trustbuster mean?
- Trustbuster means a person or entity responsible for breaking up trusts or monopolies.
- What part of speech is trustbuster?
- Trustbuster is a noun.
- What is the plural of trustbuster?
- The plural of trustbuster is trustbusters.
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