Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Hostile to business, especially to big corporations.
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- adjective Opposed to or biased against
business , orprivate enterprise
Etymologies
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Examples
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Helping the middle class isn't "antibusiness," it's common-sense economics.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Business Press Gets Nasty as Economy Worsens 2010
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Helping the middle class isn't "antibusiness," it's common-sense economics.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Business Press Gets Nasty as Economy Worsens 2010
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Helping the middle class isn't "antibusiness," it's common-sense economics.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Business Press Gets Nasty as Economy Worsens 2010
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Helping the middle class isn't "antibusiness," it's common-sense economics.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Business Press Gets Nasty as Economy Worsens 2010
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They just don't feel, after the health-care bill and the stimulus debt spending and the environmental regulations, all of these things -- they just think Obama has a kind of antibusiness mentality.
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Helping the middle class isn't "antibusiness," it's common-sense economics.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Business Press Gets Nasty as Economy Worsens 2010
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Mr. Quinn may have to pay more than he ever imagined to counteract the results of his antibusiness policies.
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The scholar Robert Higgs has shown that Roosevelt's aggressive antibusiness policies caused companies to hunker down rather than start hiring, but when Mr. Hiltzik discusses business confidence he adds scoffing quotation marks around the phrase, as if business confidence is of little importance in economic matters.
An Economy In Trouble Amity Shlaes 2011
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And then in turn they have used the very desperation they created as their rationale for even more antibusiness and antirich policies.
Why Gingrich's Tax Plan Beats Romney's Arthur B. Laffer 2012
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A resignation would draw attention to the way the power of this supposedly nonpartisan agency is being twisted to save unions from the consequences of their antibusiness excesses.
The NLRB Putsch 2011
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