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trustbusters

trustbusters is the plural of trustbuster.

Meaning of trustbuster

Noun

trustbuster (plural trustbusters)

  1. (US) 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

Questions about trustbusters

What is trustbusters the plural of?
Trustbusters is the plural of trustbuster.

Words near trustbusters in the dictionary

  1. trustable
  2. trustably
  3. trustafarian
  4. trustafarians
  5. trustbuster
  6. trustbusters
  7. trustbusting
  8. trusted
  9. trusted someone across the street
  10. trusted someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
  11. trusted someone as far as one could spit

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