price-fixing charge

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• price-fixing — ˈprice ˌfixing noun [uncountable] 1. COMMERCE LAW when companies in an industry agree on the prices they will charge for something. This form of price fixing is done so that companies avoid competing with each other, and is normally illegal: •… …   Financial and business terms

• Price fixing — is an agreement between business competitors to sell the same product or service at the same price.In general, it is an agreement intended to ultimately push the price of a product as high as possible, leading to profits for all the sellers.… …   Wikipedia

• price-fixing — price ,fixing noun uncount 1. ) an agreement between companies to charge the same price for a particular product, in order to keep the price high: Two leading airlines have been accused of price fixing. 2. ) PRICE CONTROL …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• price-fixing — UK / US noun [uncountable] business 1) an agreement between companies to charge the same price for a particular product, in order to keep the price high Two leading airlines have been accused of price fixing. 2) price control …   English dictionary

• price fixing — / praɪs ˌfɪksɪŋ/ noun an illegal agreement between companies to charge the same price for competing products …   Marketing dictionary in english

• price fixing — / praɪs ˌfɪksɪŋ/ noun an illegal agreement between companies to charge the same price for competing products …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• DRAM price fixing — In 2002, the United States Department of Justice, under the Sherman Antitrust Act, began a probe into the activities of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) manufacturers.[citation needed] US computer makers, including Dell and Gateway, claimed… …   Wikipedia

• horizontal price–fixing — horizontal price–fix·ing n: a generally illegal arrangement among competitors to charge the same price for an item compare vertical price fixing Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• price — I noun amount, appraisal, appraisement, charge, compensation, cost, disbursement, due, estimate, estimation, exaction, exchange value, expenditure, expense, fare, fee, figure, outlay, payment, premium, pretium, purchase money, quotation, rate,… …   Law dictionary

• price — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Something demanded in exchange Nouns 1. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand; fare, hire, bill, tab, rental; overhead, carrying charge or cost; rent charge, rackrent,… …   English dictionary for students

• Resale price maintenance — (RPM) is the practice whereby a manufacturer and its distributors agree that the latter will sell the former s product at certain prices (resale price maintenance), at or above a price floor (minimum resale price maintenance) or at or below a… …   Wikipedia