anticompetitive.

Preventing or reducing fair competition in a market.

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Words that belong together

• anticompetitive conduct
• anticompetitive agreement

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The authority investigated whether the agreement was anticompetitive.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.