- 1反托拉斯（台灣商管、新聞常用；中國大陸較常說「反壟斷」）
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. 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 Britain and Europe people more often say competition law. Formal: news, law, business. 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.
From the word’s history
anti- + trust (in the sense 'monopoly').
由 anti- 和 trust（壟斷企業）組成。
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。