free marketeering
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…] what the British and American leaders will be attempting at the G-20 conference […] will be to begin building a new global financial system that curbs the rampant and often conscienceless free-marketeering of the past 20 years with a new sense of accountability and restraint […]"
- "Forbes was once the business magazine of the high-trouser country-club set, a rock of free marketeering and bible of mid-size company executives, worth several billion dollars."
Etymology
From free marketeer + -ing.