free competition

noun [U] ECONOMICS

Definition

› a system in which supply and demand control prices, incomes, etc. freely and without government involvement: They point out that in countries where free competition is allowed, market development has been far from satisfactory.

(Definition of free competition noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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