to cartelize
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9.3
- verb
- /kɑrˈtɛlaɪz/
- Specialized
:
cartelizar
- Toward the end of the 1960s, there emerged two major developments that undermined the cartelized character of oil production and helped to unify the pricing of oil inter-regionally.
Examples
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While this masks the problem in the short term, it destroys the value of each dollar, ripping apart the middle class, cartelizing wealth, and allowing the U.S. to continue to limp along under the illusion of strength.
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Yeah, yeah, it's essentially the US cartelize the Japanese auto industry.
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In competitive markets, unions cannot cartelize labor and raise wages.
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Institutions such as bar associations and the Association of American Law Schools have striven to cartelize the education of new lawyers.
Academic text (1997) -
The Roosevelt Administration had effectively cartelized our commercial environment through taxation and regulation.
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America just increased its profits to more than than they were making when they were cartelize splitting, cartelize splitting the profits, OK.
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Yet his only response has been to cartelize the economy in the manner of Franklin Roosevelt and then follow by emulating the worst demagogues of that era.
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Beginning with President de la Madrid, they could no longer count on a protected and cartelized domestic market, and once NAFTA was ratified, the old days were gone forever.
Academic text (1997) -
In time, these financiers may use their increased power to either strengthen their position in the system, usually to further cartelize their industry, or to deepen their entrenchment with the state in some other way; or to make great profits when prices in sovereign.
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The government decided to cartelize the industry to stabilize prices and prevent ruthless competition.
Synonyms
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6.7
To take complete control of something so others cannot use it
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7.2
To control most of the supply of a product so you can set its price and keep competitors out
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Etymology
The word cartelize comes from the noun cartel, a group of companies that agree to set prices or limit competition, and the verb ending -ize meaning 'to make' or 'cause to be'. So, to cartelize is to make businesses join a cartel so they can control prices and reduce choice for customers.