restraint of trade

1. 1.

   any act that tends to prevent free competition in business

   Broaderrestraint

Questions about restraint of trade

What does restraint of trade mean?

restraint of trade means "any act that tends to prevent free competition in business".

Is restraint of trade a common word?

restraint of trade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.