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Definition of "trust-busting" [trust-busting]

  • The breaking up of ‘trusts’ or industrial combinations; the activities of a trust-buster. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "trust-busting" in a sentence
  • "There is a case for breaking up our very biggest banks, especially Lloyds, in a British trust-busting moment – I make it in my book Them and Us – and limiting their speculative proclivities along American lines."
  • "Bottom line: If you want to end liberal media bias, trust-busting won't work."
  • "This is not a dualism between socialism and free market, but the goal of allowing capitalism to prosper is an old American debate going back to the trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt."