anti-monopoly

adjective

an·​ti-mo·​nop·​o·​ly

ˌan-tē-mə-ˈnä-p(ə-)lē,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or antimonopoly

: opposing, prohibiting, or restricting monopolies

anti-monopoly laws

anti-monopolist noun

or antimonopolist

ˌan-tē-mə-ˈnä-pə-list,

ˌan-tī- 

… fully embraced the reform effort, casting himself as an anti-monopolist who opposed the designs of the Guggenheim Alaska Syndicate to lock up Alaska development as their private cash cow.

—Steve Haycox

Examples of anti-monopoly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On his website, El-Sayed calls for a range of policy proposals, including the abolition of medical debt, strong anti-monopoly enforcement, Medicare for All, and debt-free and tuition-free pathways for higher education access, whether in a two-year apprenticeship or four-year college education. —Jared Gans, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025

Other actions include the launch of an anti-monopoly investigation into DuPont China Group Co., a subsidiary of the multinational chemical giant, and an anti-dumping probe into X-ray tube and CT tubes for CT scanners imported from the U.S. and India. —Time, 4 Apr. 2025

Other nations such as China or members of the EU could slam Silicon Valley giants with taxes or hit them with anti-monopoly legal actions to put pressure on the U.S., Sykes said. —Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025

China retaliates the same day by announcing a flurry of countermeasures, including sweeping new duties on a variety of American goods and an anti-monopoly investigation into Google. —TIME, 8 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-monopoly

• antimonopoly
• monopoly
• oligopoly
• trichinopoly