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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 commerceplay

  Familiarity information: PRICE-FIXING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRICE-FIXING (noun)


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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