Moˌnopolies and ˈMergers Comˌmission, the
a former British government organisation 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 organisaton was replaced by the Competition Commission. There is a similar organisation in the US called the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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