unfair competition
acts done by a seller to confuse or deceive the public with intent to acquire a larger portion of the market, as by cutting prices below cost, misleading advertising, selling a spurious product under a false identity, etc.
the use of any such methods.
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How to use unfair competition in a sentence
How to prevent us heading for a world of scarce resources, unfair competition, and geopolitical battles?
The Great Depression, his advisors believed, was being caused by "unfair competition".
Liberals Shouldn’t Defend FDR’s Attacks on the Court | Megan McArdle | June 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe unfair competition, proceeding from the voluntary labor, in mechanical ways, of women well to do.
The College, the Market, and the Court | Caroline H. DallWere people in general not willing accomplices, there would be no sweating system, no unfair competition.
Consumers and Wage-Earners | J. Elliot RossThe adult journalist in the 'nineties was not to suffer from this unfair competition for a good many years to come.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV. | Charles L. Graves
Their profits have been so reduced by unfair competition that they are not sufficient to pay the cost of doing business.
And then when unfair competition is eliminated, let us see these gentlemen carry their tanks of water on their backs.
The New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson
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