trustbusting
Etymology
From trust + busting.
Why this word is great
TRUSTBUSTING — [Noun] The breaking up of trusts or monopolies. From trust ("a large business combination") + busting ("breaking up"). Unlike "regulation" (which implies oversight and control) or "deregulation" (which reduces government intervention), trustbusting is the surgical dismantling of concentrated power. It is the courtroom gavel splitting Standard Oil into thirty-four pieces, the antitrust lawyer’s briefcase stuffed with incriminating ledgers, the sudden fragmentation of a corporate leviathan into smaller, snarling rivals—a rare and fleeting victory against the gravitational pull of capital toward monopoly.
noun
- The breaking up of trusts or monopolies.