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trustbuster

NOUN
  1. a federal agent who engages in trust busting

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  • While he declined to comment on specific remedies, he did say he thinks trustbusters can seek a punishment that covers new efforts to extend the company's monopoly.
  • The Brandeisians named for that old Progressive trustbuster, Louis Brandeis argue that no such "partnership" really exists. Robert Teitelman: David Skeel's 'The New Financial Deal'
  • Of course, there are also common features to all trust building--performing well in some services raises trust more than in others (health provision has higher returns than market regulation, for example); expectations are ratcheted up (what you achieved yesterday becomes today's baseline); confidence can be quickly squandered (any suspicion of gaming evaluations is a trustbuster); and a sense of generational betterment gathers support (we appreciate a state that opens opportunities for our children). Otaviano Canuto: The Day After Tomorrow: Will We Ever Trust the State?
  • Europe's trustbusters are coming down hard, too.
  • But by the time she emerged from the blizzard of documents, the trustbuster had turned into a truster. Antitrust And Common Sense
  • And while the company has extended an olive branch to trustbusters, holding preliminary talks on July 23, it doesn't appear to be willing to make any concessions that would reduce its power.
  • Webster's Ninth has recorded as main entries broncobuster (1887) ` one who breaks wild horses to the saddle '; trustbuster (1903) ` one who seeks to break up business trusts; specif: a federal official who prosecutes trusts under the antitrust laws'; sodbuster (ca. 1918) ` one (as a farmer or a plow) that breaks the sod '; gangbuster VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
  • He earned the nickname "trustbuster" for reining in monopolies, and passed the first income tax into law. The Third Depression
  • But I'm feeling like this was a very good morning for the President: Romney is still the likely winner of the nomination, but his fight against Rick Santorum will be tougher than anyone is currently predicting and will open up deep divisions in the Republican party; and Romney is the perfect opponent for a President now emulating anti-Wall Street trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt. Mike Lux: A Good Morning for the President
  • To fix this problem, trustbusters have installed a provision forcing the company to disclose more information about its so-called application programming interfaces, or APIs.
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