TRUST BUSTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trust busting mean? 

• TRUST BUSTING (noun)
  The noun TRUST BUSTING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TRUST BUSTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUST BUSTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("trust busting" is a kind of...):

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)