: tending to reduce or discourage competition
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Ultimately, as the Times article showed, this can lead to anticompetitive behavior, drive up costs and limit patients' access to affordable medications.
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Danny Sanchez, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
In a letter sent on Feb. 12 to the F.T.C. and the Justice Department, Farm Action, a group that opposes corporate monopolies in food and agriculture, called on the agencies to look into potential monopolization and anticompetitive coordination in the industry.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Slated to go to trial next year, the case alleges that Amazon regularly engages in anticompetitive behavior both on its marketplace and through its service offerings to third-party sellers, like logistics, fulfillment and advertising.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Jan. 2025
The rise has spurred an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into allegations of anticompetitive practices from some of the largest egg producers in the country.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
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Danny Sanchez, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
In a letter sent on Feb. 12 to the F.T.C. and the Justice Department, Farm Action, a group that opposes corporate monopolies in food and agriculture, called on the agencies to look into potential monopolization and anticompetitive coordination in the industry.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Slated to go to trial next year, the case alleges that Amazon regularly engages in anticompetitive behavior both on its marketplace and through its service offerings to third-party sellers, like logistics, fulfillment and advertising.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Jan. 2025
The rise has spurred an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into allegations of anticompetitive practices from some of the largest egg producers in the country.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Anticompetitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anticompetitive. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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