Look up: engrossing

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   engrossing
   taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
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   Engrossing
   `Engrossing`, also known as `forestalling` and `regrating`, were in nineteenth century English common law three terms used to describe the achievement of an illegal monopoly of a certain good, often food, at market. The terms are no longer in use. Forestalling specifically referred to the practice of intercepting sellers on their way to a market, buying up their stock, then taking it to the market and sharply marking it up, which appears to be a...
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   Engrossing
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engross
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   engrossing
   engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e., buying up food on the way to its normal markets, and regrating, i.e., gaining contro...
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