Price Fixing Definition

noun
The setting of artificially high prices for goods or services by unlawful agreement of competing companies.
American Heritage
The setting or maintenance of prices at a certain level, esp. by competitors in collusion.
Webster's New World
Artificially setting prices at a certain level, in exception to the workings of a free market, or conspiring to do same. The test is whether such actions or agreements restrain free traders’ ability to sell according to those traders’ judgment.
Webster's New World Law

Price Fixing Sentence Examples

  • It suggests that they are, in effect, operating a price fixing cartel here in Northern Ireland.

  • The case related to accusations of a price-fixing cartel by home heating suppliers in County Galway.

  • This leads to price-fixing, with politicians siphoning off profits and leaving farmers and miners all the poorer.

  • Although licensing confusion and accusation of price fixing ensued as these direct marketing music clubs figured out how to deal with the demand for each others' release, business boomed for all three.

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