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Trustbuster
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Trustbuster
A person or, less commonly, an organization that seeks to break monopolies into several companies or to shut them down entirely in order to encourage competition in the free market. The word is strongly associated with Theodore Roosevelt, the early 20th-century U.S. president who opposed the early industrial monopolies.


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When Roosevelt ignored the threats and moved to file the trust-busting suit, he received a hasty visit from J.
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