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cartel

[ kahr-tel ]

noun

  1. an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.

    Synonyms: combination, merger, monopoly

  2. a coalition of political or special-interest groups having a common cause, as to encourage the passage of a certain law.
  3. a written agreement between belligerents, especially for the exchange of prisoners.
  4. a written challenge to a duel.


cartel

/ kɑːˈtɛl /

noun

  1. Also calledtrust a collusive international association of independent enterprises formed to monopolize production and distribution of a product or service, control prices, etc
  2. politics an alliance of parties or interests to further common aims


cartel

  1. An association in which producers of a similar or identical product try to obtain a monopoly over the sale of the product.


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Other Words From

  • car·telism noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cartel1

1550–60; < Middle French < Italian cartello letter of defiance, poster, equivalent to cart ( a ) carte + -ello diminutive suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cartel1

C20: from German Kartell, from French, from Italian cartello a written challenge, public notice, diminutive of carta card 1

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Example Sentences

Fork over a few board seats to this union, or negotiate with that cartel of suppliers—and you’re good to go.

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Nor has it diminished the power or ruthlessness of the cartels.

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Drug cartels and street gangs have supplanted the government in some regions.

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Within hours, she had been sent back even though she says she fears persecution from drug cartels there.

The number of girls living in the building would change as the girls gave birth and were sent away, and new girls were brought in to produce more children for the cartel.

How do you feel about Archer and the gang abandoning the cartel and returning to the office?

Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?

“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.

In the meantime, there is talk that with El Chapo in prison the Sinaloa cartel has a new leader.

The notorious Sinaloa cartel boss is trying to use Mexican law to get himself out of jail—and it just might work.

You do not pretend to have made any attempt, except by the way of the cartel, the John Adams.

Their remains were shortly afterwards removed in a cartel to the United States.

And early on the following morning they were put on the Alert, and that vessel was sent to St. Johns as a cartel.

A cartel went forward August 22, 1782, and in the list of prisoners sent south appears the name "Sarah Coal."

If no general cartel has been concluded, it can not be demanded by either of them.

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