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Restraint of trade   /rɪstrˈeɪnt əv treɪd/   Listen
Restraint of trade

noun
1.
Any act that tends to prevent free competition in business.



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combination in restraint of trade


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"Restraint of trade" Quotes from Famous Books



... the several states are constantly compelled to legislate against so-called "business" enterprises that are being conducted on a brute basis—some are combinations in restraint of trade, others are merely gambling transactions. For a generation the agriculturists, who constitute about one-third of our entire population, have been at the mercy of a comparatively small group of market gamblers who, by betting, force prices up or down for their own pecuniary gain. An ...
— In His Image • William Jennings Bryan
... Congress I had introduced a bill "to declare unlawful, trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production," but no action was taken upon it. On the 4th of December I again introduced this bill, it being the first Senate bill introduced in that Congress. It was referred to the committee on finance, and, having been reported back with amendments, ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman


Words linked to "Restraint of trade" :   restraint, combination in restraint of trade


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