trust·bust·er

(trŭst′bŭs′tər)

One that seeks to prosecute or dissolve business trusts.

trust′bust′ing adj. & n.

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trustbuster

(ˈtrʌstˌbʌstə)

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) informal US a person who seeks the dissolution of corporate trusts, esp a federal official who prosecutes trusts under the antitrust laws

ˈtrustˌbusting n

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trust•bust•er

(ˈtrʌstˌbʌs tər)

n.

a federal official who seeks to dissolve business trusts, esp. through vigorous application of antitrust regulations.

[1900–05, Amer.]

trust′bust`ing, n.

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trustbuster - a federal agent who engages in trust busting

federal agent, agent - any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

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Far from a "trustbuster," Roosevelt opposed breaking up Standard Oil, viewing large aggregations of capital as inevitable and necessary--so long as they were superintended by a strong federal government.

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HADLEY & PATRICIA HAGAN KUWAYAMA, MEMOIR OF A TRUSTBUSTER: A LIFELONG ADVENTURE WITH JAPAN (2003) (providing a more personal account of this historical development); Marco Botta.

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Key figure: President Teddy Roosevelt, who ran as a trustbuster while soliciting corporate cash on the side.

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Three of these five incarnations--academic, trustbuster, and private attorney--were interesting, if not exactly riveting.

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Yet Goldman, with the rigor of a trustbuster or Putin's prosecutor, traces the biographies of Berezovsky, Gusinsky, and Khodorkovsky for presumed tax evasion and other "economic crimes." The oligarchs, however, have already lost everything and are either in exile or in jail.

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He has done for the attorney general's office what Teddy Roosevelt did for the presidency: he is a trustbuster who has not been afraid of any special-interest group, no matter how powerful.

Running man

As President, Roosevelt pursued a pioneering agenda of environmental conservation and of breaking up the trusts, or corporate monopolies, in such industries as oil, railroads, and tobacco (for which he had earned the nickname "trustbuster").

In 1912, three was a crowd: Teddy Roosevelt showed that a third party could make a serious run for the White House

"How to Fix Corporate Governance; Excessive Pay, Corrupt Analysts, Auditing Games: It All Adds up to Capitalism's Biggest Crisis since the Trustbuster Era.

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Memoirs of a Trustbuster: A Lifelong Adventure with Japan.

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[17] And although Roosevelt is often remembered as a "trustbuster," he actually pursued fewer trusts than his successor.

The rhetoric of arrogance: the public relations response of the Standard Oil Trust