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    Describes laws and government action meant to stop companies from controlling a market — crushing smaller firms, secretly agreeing on prices, or acting as one giant so buyers have no real choice.

    Describes laws and government action meant to stop companies from unfairly controlling a marketAntitrust形容的是用來阻止企業不公平壟斷市場的法律和政府行動——crushing smaller firms打壓比較小的公司、secretly agreeing on prices偷偷聯合定價、or acting as one giant so buyers have no real choice或聯合成一個巨頭,讓買方沒有真正的選擇。

    In American English this is the usual word. The “trust” here is not “I believe you”; it is an old US name for a bundle of companies tied together as one.

    In American English this is the usual word在美式英文裡,這是常用的詞。The "trust" here is not "I believe you"這裡的「trust」不是「我相信你」的意思;it is an old US name for a bundle of companies tied together as one而是美國以前用來稱呼一群綁在一起、像一家公司的企業聯合體。

    In Britain and Europe people more often say competition law. Formal: news, law, business.

    In Britain and Europe people more often say competition law在英國和歐洲,人們比較常說competition law(競爭法)。Formal: news, law, business屬於正式用詞:新聞、法律、商業場合。

    If a government “brings an antitrust case,” it is taking a company to court over monopoly or price-fixing. Taiwan business English still uses the American word a lot.

    If a government "brings an antitrust case,"如果一個政府「brings an antitrust case(提起反托拉斯訴訟)」,it is taking a company to court over monopoly or price-fixing就是因為壟斷或聯合定價把一家公司告上法庭。Taiwan business English still uses the American word a lot台灣的商業英文還是很常用這個美式說法。

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

    看看訂閱內容

組成anti- (“against”) + trust. Trust here is the old American business sense: companies bundled together, not “believe.”

同家族的字

  • trustthe second half; in this pair it means a huge business group, not faith in a person

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

antitrustadj/ˌæntiˈtɹʌst/

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    lawOpposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation.

    • The regulators used antitrust laws to block the merger, believing it would eliminate competition.
    • If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。