The phrase "assuage competition" is not correct in standard English usage.
The term "assuage" typically means to alleviate or lessen something, but it is not commonly used in relation to competition.
Example: "The company implemented new strategies to assuage competition in the market."
Alternatives: "mitigate competition" or "reduce competition."
Since then, Ryanair has sought to assuage concerns about competition, lining up buyers for various operations and routes.
At its news conference on Thursday, the Justice Department made it clear that the companies' proposals had not assuaged their concerns about competition.
While Reuters can't confirm with certainty the specifics of the plan, AT&T is said to be preparing itself to make concessions in an effort assuage federal fears that the merger will reduce competition and raise wireless costs.
They fear that jobs and benefits will go if the government loosens its grip on the public sector.The French government must balance its need to assuage powerful unions with the important task of placing EDF on a firm financial footing as serious competition to its domestic monopoly grows.
Our recent paper, prepared for the first phase of the British Academy's 'The Future of the Corporation' initiative and published in the Journal of the British Academy, reflects on the roles corporate, competition, and tax law (collectively "business law") can play in simultaneously facilitating innovation, enhancing welfare, and assuaging emerging societal risks arising from new technologies.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had been worried that the $77m deal could reduce competition for premium content such as sports rights as well as advertising, but said its concerns had been assuaged.
This did not assuage Mr. Seaton.
That did not assuage his critics.
It did little to assuage the doubters.
How do you assuage your guilty conscience?
