anti-monopoly

adjective

an·​ti-mo·​nop·​o·​ly
ˌan-tē-mə-ˈnä-p(ə-)lē,
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-monopoly (audio)
variants or antimonopoly
: opposing, prohibiting, or restricting monopolies
anti-monopoly laws
anti-monopolist noun
or antimonopolist
ˌan-tē-mə-ˈnä-pə-list,
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-monopoly (audio)
… fully embraced the reform effort, casting himself as an anti-monopolist who opposed the designs of the Guggenheim Alaska Syndicate to lock up Alaska development as their private cash cow. Steve Haycox

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Nvidia inched lower after China said the company violated anti-monopoly law. Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025 Hong Kong — China significantly escalated its trade standoff with the United States Monday, saying that tech giant Nvidia, the most valuable company on the US stock market and a key provider of artificial-intelligence chips, had violated anti-monopoly laws. David Goldman, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025 China accused the chipmaker of violating an anti-monopoly law following an initial probe. Jj Kinahan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Underlying the legal saga over Google’s search monopoly was another huge anti-monopoly case, against Microsoft, when the federal government accused the company in 1998 of breaking antitrust laws by packaging its Internet Explorer browser with its Windows operating system. Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anti-monopoly

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of anti-monopoly was in 1818

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“Anti-monopoly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-monopoly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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