cartel
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- noun
- /kɑrˈtɛl/
:
cártel
- The organization formed a cartel to regulate the prices of natural gas in order to maximize profits.
- drug cartel
- market-sharing cartel
- OPEC cartel
You know, how does a cartel take power?
- You know, how does a cartel take power?
- That's why I usually refuse to call them cartels or drug cartels.
- Antitrust law is basically anti cartel rules and regulations.
- And that's because Miami was was being run by the cartel, literally.
- This sounds more like some kind of gang slash cartel than brotherhood.
- And it's where the cartels extract the, the final payment.
- We wanted to pick up the discussion on cartels, right?
- You know, El Chapo is guilty of running the cartel, right?
- And he was saying, I don't want these guns going to cartels.
- Southeast London girl meets a very powerful man, head of a cartel.
- So this cartel was dead, but it's methods survive to this day.
- So I, I think the, the new generation cartel is a step.
- The other thing about declaring cartels is terrorist groups.
- And you make a bunch of little cartels and then you go fight them.
Examples
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Whatever the market demands, the cartels will try to fulfill.
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In the border region discussed by Ford, where this research took place, Mexican cartels dominate the illegal trade.
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Even when Mexico has managed to jail cartel members, it has had trouble keeping them there.
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OPEC is, is a cartel, but it's actually a pretty bad cartel.
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By 2006, the power of the cartels had reached an apex.
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In addition, the cartel managers must be able to detect "cheaters" and discipline them effectively.
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The new technologies also provide organized crime and drug cartels with new opportunities to launder their enormous cash flow.
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First, Israeli food manufacturers and supermarket chains function as cartels; three local dairy companies, for instance, dominate the dairy market.
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To combat market manipulation, the government imposed strict laws against any kind of cartel arrangement.
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Members of the cartel agreed on production limits to control supply and drive up prices.
Synonyms
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A group of companies that work together to control a market
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A group of companies that join to control production and reduce competition
A group of companies that join to control prices and limit competition
Antonyms
Compounds
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A group that makes and sells illegal drugs and uses violence or bribes officials to control the business
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A powerful Colombian drug group that controlled much of the world's cocaine trade in the 1980s and 1990s
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A group of countries or companies that work together to control oil production and prices
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A Colombian criminal group that sold and smuggled cocaine from the 1970s until 1993
- Jargon
A group of journals or researchers who agree to mention each other's work a lot to seem more important
How Controlling
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word cartel comes from an old Italian word cartello, meaning a 'paper' or 'notice', and from Latin charta meaning 'paper', the same root you see in card and charter. So a cartel is a group of businesses that make a shared 'agreement' to control prices and limit competition.