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Definition: Price-fixing |
Price-fixingNoun1. Control (by agreement among producers or by government) of the price of a commodity in interstate commerce. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Business | The Commission concluded that on average new car prices in the U.K. Were 11 percent higher than those in continental Europe and that the automobile manufacturers were abusing their system of captive franchised dealers to operate an elaborate price-fixing cartel. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | The Fair Competition Act deals with consumer protection, misleading advertisements, price-fixing, collusion, unfair trading practices and interlocking directorships. (references) |
Germany | Germany has increased penalties for bribery of German officials, for corrupt practices between companies, and, under the law against unfair competition, for price-fixing by companies competing for public contracts. (references) | |
France | These agreements, however, are subject to specific rules and regulations regarding exclusive distribution and price-fixing. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Price-fixing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Price-fixing" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 62.5% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.5% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "price-fixing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bepaling inzake(verticale)prijsbinding (price-fixing clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | clause d'imposition des prix (price-fixing clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Preisbindungsklausel (price-fixing clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρήτρα σχετική με τον καθορισμό των τιμών (price-fixing clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | clausola dei prezzi imposti (price-fixing clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 闇価 "定 (illegal price-fixing agreement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | やみかかくきょうてい (illegal price-fixing agreement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ice-fixingpray cláusula de imposição dos preços (price-fixing clause). (various references) cláusula de precios (price-fixing clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-g-i-i-i-n-p-r-x" | |
-2 letters: prefixing. | |
-3 letters: expiring, piercing, refixing. | |
-4 letters: creping, piecing, pricing, ripieni. | |
-5 letters: cering, cringe, finger, firing, fixing, fringe, irenic, pieing, pincer, pinger, pinier, prefix, prince, ricing, riping. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 63 65 2D 66 69 78 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100101 00101101 01100110 01101001 01111000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i c e - f i x i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0063 0065 002D 0066 0069 0078 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508475697115727590758073 |
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