cartel en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kɑɹˈtɛl/ (US)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /kɑːˈtɛl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
In the business sense, borrowed from German Kartell, first used by Eugen Richter in 1871 in the Reichstag. In the political sense, which was the vehicle for this metaphor, the English sense, like the German sense, was borrowed from French cartel in the sixteenth century, from Italian cartello, diminutive of carta (“card, page”), from Latin charta.
Meanings
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A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
oil cartel
Over the past decade, the very nature of organized crime has changed, with many groups diversifying their income beyond drug trafficking, and large cartels splintering into smaller, oftentimes more nimble groups.
2023 January 10, Whitney Eulich, America Armenta, “Mexico arrests son of ‘El Chapo’: Why don’t citizens feel safer?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:drug cartel
- (historical) A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
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(historical) A written letter of defiance or challenge.
He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel.
1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:Xerxes whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill Athos.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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(historical) An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
He then sent down a flag of truce in military style, proposing a cartel or exchange of prisoners – the corporal for the notary.
1832, Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving:
- (historical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cartels | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
cartelization · drug cartel · citation cartel · cartellike · cartelism · cartelist · anticartel · intercartel · cartelize
Descendants
Translations (33)
id kartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · ko 카르텔 (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · fa کارتل (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · cmn 卡特爾 /卡特尔 (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · ca càrtel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · de Kartell (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · fr cartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · pl kartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · ru карте́ль (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · kk картель (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · es cartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · ur مافیا (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · ru карте́ль (written challenge or defiance) · is einokunarhringur (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · nb kartell (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · nn kartell (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · bg картел (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · id kartel (combination of political groups) · sv kartell (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · ja カルテル (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · fi kartelli (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · ru карте́ль (combination of political groups) · fr cartel (combination of political groups) · nl kartel (combination of political groups) · nl kartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · he קרטל (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · ru карте́ль (official agreement concerning exchange of prisoners) · da kartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · cs kartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · pl kartel (official agreement concerning exchange of prisoners) · ro cartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · pt cartel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices) · es cártel (group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices)
wikidata: Q179216 · wikipedia: Eugen Richter · wikipedia: Reichstag