Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

United States Federal Trade Commission

An independent administrative agency concerned with maintaining competitive free enterprise by prohibiting unfair methods of competition and unfair deceptive acts or practices.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

An independent administrative agency concerned with maintaining competitive free enterprise by prohibiting unfair methods of competition and unfair deceptive acts or practices.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
  • USFTC

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry

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History Note

91(82); was see under GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 1982-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Government Agencies (1968-1981)

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Tree Numbers

  1. I01w.409w.418w.750.968w
  2. N03w.540w.348w.500w.500.968w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. United States Federal Trade Commission. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014485. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014485
  2. United States Federal Trade Commission. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission
  3. United States Federal Trade Commission. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q786713