trustbuster means A person or entity responsible for breaking up trusts or monopolies. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TRUSTBUSTER — [Noun] A person or agency that enforces antitrust laws by breaking up business monopolies or trusts. From *trust*, in the sense of a business monopoly or combination, and *buster*, meaning one who breaks or destroys. Unlike a “regulator,” who polices the rules of an existing game, or a “monopolist,” who consolidates power with imperial ambition, a trustbuster is a demolitions expert for the market. It is the gavel-crack that splinters a railroad empire, the decree partitioning a titanic oil company, the surgical fragmentation of a leviathan into competing creatures—a brief, necessary violence in the long, quiet war of erosion that is democracy.
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- A person or entity responsible for breaking up trusts or monopolies.“America’s top trustbusters mean to make their policing presence felt. Lawyers, bankers and financiers now “recognise that there are cops on the beat…that we’re vigorously looking to protect the American public from illegal mergers,” says Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces consumer-protection and competition laws.”