"smother competition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to suppress or inhibit competition, usually in a negative or dishonest manner. Example: The large corporation strategically lowered prices to smother competition from smaller businesses in the industry.
While the agency cannot foresee every tactic that might smother competition, its objective should be to lower the barriers to entry for new competitors.
C1 Criticism of Realtors Group The National Association of Realtorss has come under fire from a broad range of critics who say the organization and its state and local affiliates have worked to smother competition.
PAGE A28 Challenging Realtors' 6% The National Association of Realtors is facing growing criticism that it has worked to smother competition and protect the system that provides the traditional 5percentto6percentcent broker commission on most home sales.
To eliminate some anti-trust concerns, American has agreed to buy one-fifth of US Airways, which serves Washington, D.C., and other areas where a merger with United could smother competition.
In January this year, for instance, he was acquitted of false accounting in the 1980s because a law passed by his government in 2002 had decriminalised the activities he was accused of.Two months ago the European Court of Justice ruled that Italy smothered competition in broadcasting.
In a scathing 45-page opinion, Jackson said Microsoft msft smothered competition by bullying computer makers and Internet service providers to protect its Windows software, which is used on 90% of the world's personal computers.
In other words, if Saudi Arabia wants to play the long game and smother the competition, it has to take more short-term pain.
Large chunks of the mobile sector, for example, are increasingly worried about the monopoly of titles like Game of War and Clash of Clans, in which gigantic profits are cyclically invested on block-out-the-sun-sized ad campaigns that effectively smother all competition.
"For more than twice as long, Pittsburgh-based H.J. Heinz Co. (1987 revenues, $4.6 billion) has been smothering its ketchup competition, last year producing 57% of all ketchup sold in U.S. supermarkets.
"Day after day we are cornered into an unrelenting competition that smothers and suffocates us," the council said.
"Day after day we are cornered into an unrelenting competition that smothers and suffocates us," the student council wrote at the time.
