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cartellike en · ADJ

Etymology

From cartel + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cartel.
   • Viewing free competition as chaos, but resisting government ownership of industries, he favored cartellike arrangements to stabilize prices and production. 1981 August 30, Ronald Steel, “INDISPENSABLE NUISANCE”, in The New York Times:
   • This cartellike partnership's specious sales pitch was that doctors were the culprits behind inflation, driven to avaricious behavior by an evil fee-for-service system. 2014 January 21, Robert W. Geist, “Counterpoint: The high cost of 'free' medical care”, in StarTribune:

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