trust busting

1. 1.

   (law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)

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   United States · law

Questions about trust busting

What does trust busting mean?

trust busting means "(law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)".

Is trust busting a common word?

trust busting 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.