anticompetitive

adjective

an·​ti·​com·​pet·​i·​tive

ˌan-tē-kəm-ˈpe-tə-tiv,

ˌan-tī- 

: tending to reduce or discourage competition

Examples of anticompetitive in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Yet by the end, panelists had refocused the spotlight onto pharmacy benefit managers—and provided striking evidence that PBMs, not biotech companies, deserve most of the blame for the anticompetitive practices that lead to high drug prices. —Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025

This ruling follows another significant U.S. antitrust loss in August 2024, when a different federal judge determined Google had engaged in anticompetitive behavior to establish and maintain a monopoly in the online search market. —Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025

That practice only ended when the UK parliament started calling out Facebook’s anticompetitive conduct toward app developers in 2018, the FTC alleged. —ArsTechnica, 21 May 2025

Slater explained how anticompetitive government regulations unnecessarily sap the free markets of dynamism. —Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anticompetitive

• appetitive
• competitive
• repetitive
• noncompetitive
• uncompetitive