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- noun Plural form of
trustbuster .
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Examples
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In less restrained moments, he calls the trustbusters "communistic."
Culture Club 2008
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He insisted trustbusters should nevertheless nix a deal, citing his family's own unhappy sale of a Wisconsin grocery chain to an out-of-state company: "This experience has taught me firsthand what dangers can ensue and, in fact, happen when people from somewhere else take over a business."
The Google Problem Isn't Antitrust Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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And next, even though I use many Google services everyday without paying a penny, the trustbusters think they can make things better ...
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America's second- and fourth-largest cellphone companies called off their $39 billion merger yesterday, in a decision that Justice Department trustbusters will surely cheer as a victory for "competition."
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None of this likely troubles the trustbusters nearly so much, though, as signs that antitrust itself is becoming the least important venue for legal slagging of Google by its enemies.
The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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DuPont has filed an antitrust suit against Monsanto over its dominance of a sliver of the soybean market, and the company hopes Mr. Holder's trustbusters will grant it success where the market has not.
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DuPont has filed an antitrust suit against Monsanto over its dominance of a sliver of the soybean market, and the company hopes Mr. Holder's trustbusters will grant it success where the market has not.
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She harkened back to a phrase coined by Theodore Roosevelt, one of the original trustbusters.
The F.T.C.’s Bully Pulpit on Privacy - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But there's another story here -- one that suggests just how myopic America's trustbusters are in focusing their attentions on the dangers of market power in highly concentrated, high-tech industries.
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DuPont has filed an antitrust suit against Monsanto over its dominance of a sliver of the soybean market, and the company hopes Mr. Holder's trustbusters will grant it success where the market has not.
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