Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
restrictive practices
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although these facts look impressive, they may overstate the success of policy against restrictive practices.
▪ Barriers arising from the restrictive practices and cartels of business enterprises.
▪ Few would have predicted that a radical, reforming Lord Chancellor would begin an assault on the restrictive practices of barristers.
▪ In some of the privatised ports, ending restrictive practices has led to an improvement in productivity of 50 to 100 percent.
▪ It dealt with unions and restrictive practices.
▪ The restrictive practices of stubborn unions keep the new colour-printing presses idle.
▪ The railways are also a sink of ancient union restrictive practices.
▪ These consist of the treatment of dominant firm monopolies, restrictive practices and mergers.
Wiktionary
restrictive practices
n. (context legal business pejorative English) In antitrust law, practices that restrict other business, such as price fixing, market sharing, monopolizing, or attempting to monopolize markets.
Usage examples of "restrictive practices".
You belong to the oldest trade union of the lot,' Liz gave it to him straight, 'cram full of restrictive practices.
He died a pauper, the first victim of the ‘restrictive practices’ that have continued into the late twentieth century.
She had no doubt whatsoever that Sir Giles indulged his taste for restrictive practices with someone in London.