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free marketeering

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Belief in a free market model of economy; the exploitation of a market in which trade is subject to little or no regulation by government.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 1990, “The 1990 Inkatha Declaration” in Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South Africa: My Vision of the Future, New York: St. Martin’s Press, p. 141, There shall be consultative mechanisms set up in which organised agriculture, mining, commerce, banking and industry participates to advise the Government on the best ways to avoid the dangers of free marketeering and exploitation on the one hand and the dangers of State control that curbs productivity on the other hand.

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History

Etymology

From free marketeer + -ing.