trustification

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noun

The formation of a trust to hold and manage something, especially one that has monopolistic control.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nountrustification (countable and uncountable, plural trustifications)

plural trustifications

  1. countableuncountableThe formation of a trust to hold and manage something, especially one that has monopolistic control.

    Let me repeat that this Bill is a definite link in the international trustification of public credit.

    1933, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 236, page 864
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    On the other hand certain forms of amalgamation have been tempting enough to foster a sort of trustification which may not have been justified by the existing conditions of competition.

    2013, Hermann Levy, Industrial Germany, →ISBN

    Under the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, and even more under Taft, new proceedings were started, this time against trustifications through holding companies.

    2014, A.B. Levy, Private Corporations and their Control - Part 1, →ISBN, page 150

    The appeal of trustification, for example, was limited by cultural and sociopolitical considerations.

    2015, Gerald D. Feldman, Iron and Steel in the German Inflation, 1916-1923, →ISBN, page 38

    ...there has of late been a tendency towards a much more pronounced amalgamation and trustification in industry.

    2018, Hermann Levy, The New Industrial System, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

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