trustification

[ truhs-tuh-fi-key-shuhn ]

noun

1. the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts:

   the trustification of the oil business.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trustification¹

1900–05; trust + -i- ( def ) + -fication ( def )

Example Sentences

Though high production costs and what Williams calls "trustification" have killed more than 475 newspapers in Britain and the U.S. in the past 35 years, he argues that it is "not the one-sidedness of the monopoly newspaper that contains the greatest threat to local democracy now, but its circumspect neutrality in many matters where the clash of opinion is desirable."

From Time Magazine Archive

We are against the autocracy of money and the trustification of industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some one invented water-gas and "let in" Addicks on the invention; and the Philadelphia branch of the "Standard Oil," represented by Widener, Elkins, and Dolan, "trustified" the gas companies of the city of Chicago, which enabled Addicks to "hold up" the "trustification" until Dolan and Dolan's associates paid him the sum of $300,000 for the instrument with which he had done the holding up, $10,000 worth of the stock of one of the necessary Chicago companies.

From Project Gutenberg

As he looked over the United States he found but one great city which had not already been captured by "Standard Oil" or some of its disciples—Brooklyn, N. Y. To the present day Rogers swears Addicks' only reason for coming to Brooklyn was to hold up the "Standard Oil" "trustification."

From Project Gutenberg

The end of the trustification of the institutions of the nation is not yet, but the people are to be shown a way by which the plundering process can be reversed and through which they can make their freedom complete and absolute by the complete and absolute enslavement of the "System" itself.

From Project Gutenberg