[ UK /kɑːtˈɛl/ ]
[ US /kɑɹˈtɛɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
    they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly
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How To Use cartel In A Sentence

  • The party established a de facto political cartel that excluded other parties from power.
  • I believe that in a free market without a competition law your worst nightmares would come true, that everything would be monopolised or cartelised.
  • Roosevelt's National Recovery Act NRA attempted to cartelize the American economy just as Mussolini had cartelized Italy's. In the Monica Lewinsky scandal — 10 years old now — "Everybody lost, with one exception, or possibly two."
  • This nation was founded on glorious greed, boundless carpetbaggery, corrupt cartels and an oligarchy of rich men whose "countrymen" were other rich men. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • At least nine people have died in bomb attacks launched by the cartels since President Barco ordered the crackdown on the cocaine traffickers.
  • The Japanese economy was then, and in many ways still is, highly "cartelized" in manufacturing, farming and trade. Jeff Schweitzer: China's Downfall: the Ultimate Impact of Environmental Degradation
  • The Zetas were founded by Mexican special forces soldiers who deserted and went to work for the Gulf Cartel as enforcers.
  • First, the influence of producer cartels on prices of primary products can be great, and yet not reflect scarcity changes.
  • You have the balloon effect for shifting coca production, what I call the cockroach effect for how the cartels jump from one region to the next, and then there's the whack-a-mole policy to try to deal with all of it," says Bruce Bagley, a political scientist at the University of Miami and an expert on the global drug trade. Cocaine: The New Front Lines
  • All this happened at a time when the supply of oil was being artificially restricted by the Opec oil cartel. Times, Sunday Times
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