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The cost of computing has been helped by the operating system technology

In Microsoft Windows, which has enabled software developers and hardware

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Unit 15 Competition law

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Language

Vocabulary: distinguishing meaning Which word in each group is the odd one

out? You may need to consult a dictionary to distinguish the differences in

Meaning.

Undertaking enterprise

Dimension threshold

Practices offences activities

Secret agreement oligopoly I

To misuse to breach to abuse

Behaviour

Ion conspiracy

To use improperly

Word formation Complete this table by filling in the correct word forms.

Underline the stressed syllable in each word with more than one syllable.

Competitive

Discriminate

restriction !

I

I regulatory I

Notify

Allocate

Fine

Vocabulary: collocations 1 Complete the phrases below using the nouns in

The box.

Access bids cartel

practices procccdinii':3

Complaint fines petition position

To initiate a company

To suspect a company of abusive pricing

To abuse its dominant

To collude on

To participate in an illegal

To file a fine..............

To limit to a market

8 to impose '." on a company

To lodge a against a company

Vocabulary: collocations 2 Complete each of the collocations these

Sentences using a word or a form of a word from the phrases in Exercise 3.

1 The Authority fined 20 construction companies over ˆ30 million

For in an illegal cartel.

The Competition Authority investigating tow truck service providers who

Are suspected of pricing practices in breach of Article 81 of the

EC Treaty.

A consortium of banks was fined for infringement of the Competition Act

By means of horizontal agreements between the banks and abuse of a

Record fines were

Price ofvitaljf1ios,

Six roofing contrattorshave been found to have agreed to fix the prices of



Roofing serVices through bid

Dialjf10nd dealers plan to a complaint withEU regulators against

A giant South African diamond corporation for anti-competitive practices.

Vocabulary: collocations With merger Decide which of these verbs collocate

With the noun a merger.

Allocate approve

Against drug companies for colluding to fix the

Evaluate impose investigate lodge reject

6 Vocabulary:ir~egular pluralformsChoose the correct plural form (a or b) for

These words. For some ofth.e words, both oPtions are acceptable. Consult your

Dictionary if necessary.

Addendum

Analysis

Appendix

Attorney general

Bureau

Criterion

Forum

Index

Memorandum

Notary public

Phenomenon

Prospectus

A addendums

A analysises

A appendixes

A attorney generals

A bureaus

A criteria

A forums

A indexes

A memoranda

A notarIes public

A phenoljf1enons

A prospectora

b

B appendices


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