price-fixing

noun

price-fix·​ing ˈprīs-ˌfik-siŋ How to pronounce price-fixing (audio)
: the setting of prices artificially (as by producers or government) contrary to free market operations

Examples of price-fixing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Fans take action Jennifer Kinder, a single mother and personal injury attorney from Dallas, Texas, represents more than 350 fellow Taylor Swift fans in separate lawsuits which accuse Ticketmaster and Live Nation of fraud, price-fixing and failing to protect fans from bots. Ash-Har Quraishi, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024 Federal probes into price-fixing and labor practices in the wider US chicken industry have only added to the sector’s headaches. Gerson Freitas Jr., Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024 The appellate court found the ban was a reasonable measure to protect the public from future price-fixing. Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024 As far back as 1978, the UK House of Commons investigated potential price-fixing within the industry. Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024 Advertisement In December 2022, Taylor Swift fans filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment Inc., for alleged fraud, price-fixing and antitrust law violations while selling advance tickets to Swift’s Eras Tour. Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023 Julien’s is celebrating its 20th anniversary, having entered the auction market shortly after the largest celebrity memorabilia houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, paid over $550 million apiece to settle a price-fixing case. Tom Roland, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2023 The arrangement is still price-fixing regardless of whether competing landlords ever communicated with one another about prices, prosecutors said. Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023 In 2009, agencies raided top pasta makers over allegations of price-fixing and fined them nearly $18 million. Niha Masih, Washington Post, 11 May 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1889, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of price-fixing was in 1889

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“Price-fixing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/price-fixing. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Legal Definition

price-fixing

noun
price-fix·​ing
ˈprīs-ˌfik-siŋ
: the usually illegal setting of prices artificially (as by producers) contrary to free market operations see also horizontal price-fixing, vertical price-fixing

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