adjective
- designed to or tending to prevent or reduce competition in a market or industry
Usage: commonly used in business, economics, and legal contexts
Examples
- The company was accused of anticompetitive practices that excluded smaller rivals from the market.
- Regulators investigated whether the merger would have anticompetitive effects.
- Price-fixing agreements are considered anticompetitive under antitrust law.
- The firm's exclusive dealing contracts were ruled anticompetitive by the court.
- Anticompetitive behavior can harm consumers by reducing choice and raising prices.