释义 |
Monopolies and Mergers Commission, theMoˌnopolies and ˈMergers Comˌmission, the a former British government organization whose job was to examine cases where two companies plan to merge (=join together to form a larger company), and to decide whether this would be bad for other businesses and for ordinary customers. If the government thought there might be a problem, the case was ‘referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission’. In 1999 the organization was replaced by the Competition Commission. There is a similar organization in the US called the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). |