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perfect competition
(per|fect com|pe¦ti¦tion)
noun
[
mass noun
]
the situation prevailing in a market in which buyers and sellers are so numerous and well informed that all elements of monopoly are absent and the market price of a commodity is beyond the control of individual buyers and sellers.
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