| 词汇 | bid-rigging |
| 释义 | bid rigging noun[ U ] LAWukus illegal behaviour by companies that are competing for work in which they make a secret agreement, for example to increase their prices or to share the work, in order that they both gain financially: The Office of Fair Trading has today formally accused 112 construction firms in England of participating in bid rigging. illegal behaviour by two or more people at an auction (= public sale) in which they agree not to bid against each other Examples of bid riggingbid rigging However, he was found not guilty of the bidrigging charges in 2010. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The investigation resulted in the indictment and conviction of over one hundred participants in price-fixing and bidrigging of waste hauling contracts in the city. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The parking garage was finally demolished amid allegations of bidrigging. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was later discovered that a process of bidrigging had occurred, and a complex trial involving twenty defendants took place. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The two union leaders also engaged in bidrigging and bribery. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Even so, bidrigging is still rampant in the construction industry, auto sale auctions, and foreclosed home auctions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These forms of bidrigging are not mutually exclusive of one another, and two or more of these practices could occur at the same time. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The bank acknowledged engaging in illegal bidrigging which over charged the district for bonds sold in 2001. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In addition they could raid the unions' health and pension funds, extort businesses with threats of a workers' strike and participate in bidrigging. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Bidrigging fraud by auction houses can be resisted by bidders who no longer bid, punishing crooked auction houses. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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