antitrust

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntider.

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)

Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.

English anti-

English trust

English antitrust

From anti- + trust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæntiˈtɹʌst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

antitrust (not comparable)

1. (law) Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation.

   The regulators used antitrust laws to block the merger, believing it would eliminate competition.

   • 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 410, number 8878, archived from the original on 18 May 2020:

     If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.

   • 2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 January 2022:

     When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.

Derived terms

• antitruster

Translations

opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts

• Catalan: antimonopolista
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反托拉斯的 (fǎn tuōlāsī de), 反壟斷的 / 反垄断的 (fǎn lǒngduàn de)

• Czech: antimonopolní, protimonopolní
• Finnish: kartellien vastainen
• French: antitrust (fr) m or f, antimonopolistique (fr) m or f
• Galician: antimonopolio m or f
• Greek: αντιτράστ (el) (antitrást)
• Indonesian: antimonopoli
• Italian: antimonopolio m or f
• Malay: antitras
• Polish: antymonopolowy (pl)
• Portuguese: antitruste (pt), antitrust (pt) (Brasil)
• Spanish: antimonopolio, antimonopolista

See also

• antimonopoly

French

Etymology

From anti- +‎ trust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.tʁœst/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Adjective

antitrust (plural antitrusts)

1. antitrust

Further reading

• “antitrust”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈtɾɐs.t͡ʃi/, /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈtɾɐst͡ʃ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈtɾɐs.t͡ʃi/, /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈtɾɐst͡ʃ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈtɾɐʃ.t͡ʃi/, /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈtɾɐʃt͡ʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈtɾɐst͡ʃ/, /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈtɾɐs.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌɐ̃.tiˈtɾɐʃt/

Adjective

antitrust (invariable)

1. alternative form of antitruste

Further reading

• “antitrust”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English antitrust. By surface analysis, anti- +‎ trust.

Adjective

antitrust m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. antitrust

Declension

Declension of antitrust (invariable)

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	antitrust		antitrust	antitrust	antitrust
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive- dative	indefinite	antitrust		antitrust	antitrust	antitrust
	definite	—		—	—	—

Spanish

Etymology

From English antitrust

Adjective

antitrust (invariable)

1. antitrust

Further reading

• “antitrust”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025