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PRICE-FIXING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does price-fixing mean?
• PRICE-FIXING (noun)
The noun PRICE-FIXING has 1 sense:
1. control (by agreement among producers or by government) of the price of a commodity in interstate commerce
Familiarity information: PRICE-FIXING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Control (by agreement among producers or by government) of the price of a commodity in interstate commerce
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("price-fixing" is a kind of...):
control (the activity of managing or exerting control over something)
Domain category:
administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)
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