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Definition: Cartel |
CartelNoun1. A consortium of companies formed to limit competition; "they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cartel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | An alliance or arrangement among industrial or commercial enterprises or nations aimed at limiting competition or exercising monopoly power in a market. (references) |
Economics | A group of independent producers which regulates production, pricing, and marketing by members to maximize market power and limit competition. (references) |
Law | A voluntary joining together of several firms in the same line of business, which, while still preserving the individual entities, restricts their economic independence in certain respects, in order to regulate competition. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A cartel is a group of producers whose goal is to fix prices and limit supply. Cartels are illegal in most countries, however they do exist internationally. In general, cartels are economically unstable in that there is a great incentive for members to cheat and to sell more than the quotas set by the cartel. This has caused most cartels which attempt to set the prices of raw materials to be unsuccessful. A rare exception to this involved petroleum and OPEC. Another exception is the De Beers diamond cartel.Many trade organizations, especially in industries dominated by only a few major companies, have been accused of being fronts for cartels.
An example of a new international cartel is the one created by the members of the Asian Racing Federation and documented in the Good Neighbour Policy signed on September 1, 2003.
See also drug cartel.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cartel."
Synonyms: CartelSynonyms: combine (n), corporate trust (n), trust (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Compact | Stipulation, settlement, convention; compromise, cartel. |
Cooperation | Joint stock, copartnership; cartel; confederation; (party); coalition, fusion; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together; logrolling, freemasonry. |
Defiance | Noun: defiance; daring & Verb:; dare; challenge, cartel; threat; war cry, war whoop. |
Pacification | Truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities, stand-down; breathing time; convention; modus vivendi; flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire, cartel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cartel |
| Specialty definitions using "cartel": TINLC. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cartel" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (cartel, coalition, ring, trust), Manx (cartel), Portuguese (cartel), Romanian (cartel, combine), Spanish (bill, cartel, notice, placard, poster, show bill, sign, signboard, trust). |
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Movie/TV Titles | El Cartel de Michoacán (1996) Cartel (1990) | |
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| "Bull ad" by Ibon San Martin Commentary: "A tipical spanish cartel. 'El toro de Osborne'." |
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Business | The federal "Vergabekammer" is located in the "Bundeskartellamt" (Federal Cartel Office). (references) | |
The Commission concluded that on average new car prices in the U.K. Were 11 percent higher than those in continental Europe and that the automobile manufacturers were abusing their system of captive franchised dealers to operate an elaborate price-fixing cartel. (references) | ||
Economic History | Colombia | By the end of 1996, almost all the main Medellin and Cali drug cartel kingpins were either in jail or dead. (references) |
Austria | International cartels are not prohibited, but are subject to oversight by the cartel court to prevent the abuse of market power. (references) | |
Austria | Government plans for antitrust reform include a reorganization of the cartel court and provisions for retroactive reversal of mergers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | Maldonado Vega, who also served previously as director of the Federal District Police Academy, was linked to the Juarez Cartel. (references) |
Mexico | In August 2000, the military police arrested Generals Humberto Quiros Hermosillo and Arturo Acosta Chaparro on charges of narcotics trafficking and assisting the Ciudad Juarez-based Amado Carrillo drug cartel. (references) | |
Mexico | For example, on April 6, the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) announced that charges had been brought against Brigadier General Ricardo Martinez Perea as well as two junior officers for their alleged links with the drug trafficking group the Gulf Cartel. (references) | |
Political Economy | NETHERLANDS | Cartel legislation, which took effect in 1996, bans cartels unless its proponents can conclusively demonstrate a public interest. (references) |
SWITZERLAND | In early 1996, a new Cartel Law came into effect, introducing the presumption that horizontal agreements setting prices, production volume, or territorial distribution diminish effective competition and are therefore unlawful. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | Agricultural products are similarly affected by cartel practices. (references) |
Worker Rights | Romania | The Confederation of Democratic Trade Unions of Romania and Cartel Alfa are affiliated with the World Labor Confederation. (references) |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I again urge the Congress to move ahead immediately on the remainder of my energy proposals to make America invulnerable to the foreign oil cartel. |
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| "Cartel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.63% of the time. "Cartel" is used about 272 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.63% | 271 | 17,854 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 272 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cartel": Cartel ship ♦ lumber Cartel. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "cartel": cartel-determined. | |
Ending with "cartel": anti-cartel. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cartel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kartel (combine, trust), aleancë (alliance, confederate, knot). (various references) | |
Arabic | كارتل إتحاد إحتكاري للمنتجين, إتفاق مكتوب بين دولتين. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | картел (combine, kartell, ring), писмено повикване на дуел. (various references) | |
Chinese | 企业联合. (various references) | |
Czech | kartel (trust). (various references) | |
Danish | kartel. (various references) | |
Dutch | kartel (notch). (various references) | |
Finnish | kartelli. (various references) | |
French | cartel (cartel arrangement). (various references) | |
German | kartell (alliance, pool). (various references) | |
Greek | καρτέλ (combine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קרטל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | politikai csoportok közti egyezmény, kartell (combine, ring). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kumpulan produsen. (various references) | |
Italian | cartello (milepost, notice, poster, sign, signboard, trust). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 企業連合 (syndicate), カルスト地形 (boy, caldera, cardamom, Cartier, clinical records, cultivator, culture, culture center, culture shock, karst, quartet, Quartier Latin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きぎょうれんごう (syndicate), カルテル . (various references) | |
Korean | 기업연합. (various references) | |
Manx | maylartey pryssoonagh, cartel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | artelcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cartel. (various references) | |
Romanian | convenţie pentru schimb de prizonieri, cartel electoral, cartel (combine). (various references) | |
Russian | картель;карт-бланш картельный, картель (combine, kartell), обмен пленными. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kartel (kartell, pool, trust). (various references) | |
Spanish | cartel (bill, notice, placard, poster, show bill, sign, signboard, trust). (various references) | |
Swedish | kartell. (various references) | |
Turkish | kartel (combination, combine, pool, ring, syndicate, water barrel), esir değişimi anlaşması. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | картель, обмін полоненими, письмовий виклик на дуель. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cartel": cartelise, cartelised, cartelises, cartelising, cartelization, cartelizations, cartelize, cartelized, cartelizes, cartelizing, cartels. (additional references) | |
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"Cartel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acarte, Actel, Arktel, artel, arteli, Bartal, Bartelo, Cabriel, Cabtell, Cantil, cardal, cardel, Cardweil, Careto, carnel, Carnteel, cartal, cartaz, carten, Carthew, cartil, Cartmell, cartop, castel, Catel, Cattel, cautela, Cazrti, Centel, Certen, Cetrek, chartel, Cortal, Cortel, courtel, Dartle, Dartoll, fartel, Gartrell, hartal, Kardelj, Kartal, Karte, Kartel, Karweil, natrel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cartel" (pronounced kÄrte"l) |
| 4 | -r t e" l | foretell. |
| 3 | -t e" l | clientele, hotel, Tel, tell, motel, pastel, retell. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: claret, rectal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: alert, alter, artel, caret, carle, carte, cater, clear, cleat, crate, eclat, lacer, later, ratel, react, recta, taler, trace. | |
-2 letters: acre, alec, care, carl, cart, cate, celt, earl, lace, late, lear, race, rale, rate, real, tace, tael, talc, tale, tare, teal, tear, tela. | |
-3 letters: ace, act, ale, alt, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: article, cartels, central, clarets, clatter, crestal, locater, plectra, recital, scarlet, tackler, trachle, treacle, treacly. | |
+2 letters: acrolect, acrylate, articled, articles, bracelet, bracteal, bractlet, brocatel, calypter, cartable, cellaret, centrals, cervelat, chelator, chlorate, clarinet, clatters, clattery, clearest, collaret, corelate, cultrate, decretal, erotical, excretal, lacerate, lacertid, literacy, locaters, loricate, metrical, particle, pectoral, placater, praelect, prelatic, raclette, recitals, rectally, relocate, retackle, reticula, scarlets, sceptral, sectoral, spectral, sterical, tacklers, tailrace, tracheal, trachled, trachles, tractile, trauchle, treacles, trochlea, ulcerate, vertical. | |
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