forestallment

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Modern monopolies are forestallers incorporated, and are punished, within a particular nation, through anti-trust laws.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, truly, ye reverend Fathers, was your pantry filled; fat are your larders; over-generous your wine-bins, ye plotting exasperators of the Poor; traitorous forestallers of bread!

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

In the towns, the forestallers hoarded flour, and sugar, and salt in their warehouses, to await famine prices.

From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by Cooke, John Esten

Is it Aristocrat forestallers; a Court still bent on intrigues?

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

The commercial law of the Middle Ages is full of provisions against engrossers, forestallers, and regrators, all of whom were engaged in artificially raising prices to the consumer by obtaining some sort of monopoly.

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)