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PRONUNCIATION OF PRICE-FIXING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRICE-FIXING

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Price-Fixing is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PRICE-FIXING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Price fixing

Price fixing is an agreement between participants on the same side in a market to buy or sell a product, service, or commodity only at a fixed price, or maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given level by controlling supply and demand. The intent of price fixing may be to push the price of a product as high as possible, leading to profits for all sellers but may also have the goal to fix, peg, discount, or stabilize prices. The defining characteristic of price fixing is any agreement regarding price, whether expressed or implied. Price fixing requires a conspiracy between sellers or buyers. The purpose is to coordinate pricing for mutual benefit of the traders. For example, manufacturers and retailers may conspire to sell at a common "retail" price; set a common minimum sales price, where sellers agree not to discount the sales price below the agreed-to minimum price; buy the product from a supplier at a specified maximum price; adhere to a...

Definition of price-fixing in the English dictionary

The definition of price-fixing in the dictionary is the setting of prices by agreement among producers and distributors.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRICE-FIXING

price point
price range
price ring
price support
price tag
price ticket
price variation clause
price war
price-dividend ratio
price-earnings ratio
price-rigging
price-sensitive
priceable
priced
priceless
pricelessly
pricelessness
pricer
prices and incomes policy
prices index

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRICE-FIXING

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match-fixing
mixing
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nitrogen-fixing
perplexing
relaxing
shadow-boxing
spot fixing
taxing
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vision mixing
waxing

Synonyms and antonyms of price-fixing in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «price-fixing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRICE-FIXING

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The translations of price-fixing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «price-fixing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

操纵价格
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de fijación de precios
570 millions of speakers

English

price-fixing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कीमत तय
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

تحديد الأسعار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

в ценовом сговоре
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fixação de preços
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মূল্য নির্ধারণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fixation des prix
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penentuan harga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Preisabsprachen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

価格固定
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

담합
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Price-fixing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ấn định giá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விலை நிர்ணயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

किंमत-निश्चिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fiyat belirlerken
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fissazione dei prezzi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ustalania cen
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

в ціновій змові
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de fixare a prețurilor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τον καθορισμό των τιμών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prysvasstelling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fastställande av priser
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prissamarbeid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of price-fixing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRICE-FIXING»

The term «price-fixing» is regularly used and occupies the 90.495 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRICE-FIXING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about price-fixing

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRICE-FIXING»

Discover the use of price-fixing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to price-fixing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Competition Policy and Price Fixing
Competition Policy and Price Fixing provides the needed analytical foundation.
Louis Kaplow, 2013
2
Global Price Fixing: Our Customers are the Enemy
Two following chapters provide background on the economics theory and legal principles relevant to understanding cartels. Nine following chapters comprise the economic core of this book.
John M. Connor, 2001
3
Vertical Price Fixing in Australia
Written by a Supreme Court barrister and solicitor who is also an associate professor of commercial law at Deakin University, this text examines various aspects of resale price maintenance and its treatment under the Trade Practices Act, ...
Philip H. Clarke, 1991
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Antitrust Law Developments (sixth)
Price fixing among buyers also has been held per se illegal,502 and the DOJ has brought several criminal actions against buyer cartels.503 The courts and enforcement agencies, however, have recognized that certain joint purchasing ...
‎2007
5
Information Sharing Among Health Care Providers: An ...
Price Fixing The majority of cases discussing information exchanges have focused on price fixing or price stabilization* Price fixing is a per se violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act.31 Anticompetitive use of price or cost information can ...
‎1994
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Messenger Model Handbook
otherwise absolve the network of potential liability for price fixing. For example, the Commission held in the NTSP matter: We also find that each NTSP physician's ability to opt in or out of a contract — NTSP's inability to "bind" its members to a ...
‎2008
7
Concise International and European IP Law: TRIPS, Paris ...
4(1)(a) concerns agreements between competitors that have as their object the fixing of prices for products sold to third parties, including the products incorporating the licenced technology. (b) Direct price fixing measures. Such price fixing can ...
Thomas Cottier, Pierre Véron, 2011
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Measuring Business Interruption Losses and Other Commercial ...
This method looks to find a period of time during which there was no price fixing. Depending on the facts of the case, this time period could either be before or after the price fixing. The difference in prices between the “no price- fixing” time and ...
Patrick A. Gaughan, 2009
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European Competition Law and Economics: A Comparative ...
A Comparative Perspective Roger van den Bergh, Peter D. Camesasca. minimum resale prices, it seems unlikely that dealers' collusion is a major explanation for vertical price fixing. The opposite conclusion is tenable only in as far as retailing ...
Roger van den Bergh, Peter D. Camesasca, 2001
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Industrial Organisation: Competition, Growth, and Structural ...
7.4 PRICE-FIXING CARTELS AND JOINT PROFIT MAXIMISATION The previous sections have shown that in an oligopolistic market the interdependence between firms creates simultaneous incentives for the firms to compete and to cooperate ...
Kenneth Desmond George, Caroline Joll, E. L. Lynk, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRICE-FIXING»

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Regulator finds TransAlta breached the rules in power price-fixing
A woman walks towards the entrance of the TransAlta headquarters building in Calgary, on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Larry MacDougal / THE ... «Calgary Herald, Jul 15»
2
Four major airlines sued over alleged price-fixing scheme
The lawsuit claims the price-fixing began no later than July 2, 2011. The four airlines control about 80 percent of the market for domestic air ... «Legal News Line, Jul 15»
3
Settlement near in price-fixing lawsuit
A Japanese shipping company that brings vehicles into U.S. ports has agreed to settle complaints from consumers and automobile and ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
4
Ocean Shippers Look To Sink Auto Price-Fixing Claims
Law360, New York (July 23, 2015, 8:49 PM ET) -- International shipping firms on Thursday fought to submarine putative class actions in New Jersey alleging that ... «Law360, Jul 15»
5
Michael Lowe Joins Profit Recovery Partners, LLC As Director …
... Shipping Act, which regulates ocean shipping companies, preempts state antitrust laws that protect indirect purchasers against price-fixing. «SYS-CON Media, Jul 15»
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BLOG: Is DOJ auto parts price-fixing crackdown winding down?
DETROIT (July 22, 2015) — After scouring the auto supply chain in a five-year crackdown on price-fixing, has the U.S. Department of Justice ... «Tire Business, Jul 15»
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Russia and China to investigate lines for potential price-fixing
Unidentified shipping lines will be subject to an investigation by Russian and Chinese authorities into whether they have fixed prices on the ... «Container Management, Jul 15»
8
Brazil convicts three in Petrobras price-fixing scandal
They were the first construction executives to be found guilty in a massive price-fixing and bribery scandal involving state-run oil company ... «EJ Insight, Jul 15»
9
HKEx says settlement reached on US aluminium price-fixing claims
In March a U.S. judge threw out the aluminium price-fixing claims against several Wall Street banks, commodity merchants and HKEx. «Reuters, Jul 15»
10
It's not your imagination: airfare prices are rising
On July 1, news broke that the Justice Department had launched an investigation into possible price-fixing in the airline industry. The DOJ is ... «Mashable, Jul 15»

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