cartel
/kɑːˈtɛl/US/kɑɹˈtɛl/
cartel noun: a group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
Noun
cartel (plural cartels)
- A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
- oil cartel
- drug cartel
- A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
- 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....
- 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
- 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
- A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
cartel meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cartel in Hindi
- कार्टेल, कारटेल
cartel in Tamil
- கூட்டமைப்பு, பெருந்தொழிலிணைப்பு, மற்போருக்கு அறைகூவற்சீட்டு, சிறைப்பட்டவர்களை மாற்றிக்கொள்ளுதல், எழுதப்பட்டுள்ள அட்டை, அரசியல் கூட்டு நிலை
cartel in Marathi
- कार्टेल, कारटेल
cartel in Urdu
- group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices
- مافیا māfiyā
More languagesFewer languages
- cartel in Bengali
- কার্টেল, কারটেল, কার্টেইল
- cartel in Telugu
- కార్టెల్
- cartel in Malayalam
- കാർട്ടൽ, കാർട്ടെൽ
- cartel in Kannada
- ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣ ಕೂಟ, ಮಾರಾಟ, ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ, ಸೆರೆಯಾಳುಗಳ ವಿನಿಮಯದ ಒಪ್ಪಂದ
- cartel in Punjabi
- ਕਾਰਟੇਲ, ਕਾਰਟਲ, ਕਾਰਟੈਲ
- cartel in Gujarati
- કાર્ટેલ, કારટેલ, કાર્ટેઇલ
- cartel in Odia
- କାର୍ଟେଲ, କାର୍ଟେଲ୍, କାରଟେଲ୍
- cartel in Nepali
- कार्टेल, कार्टल, कारटेल
- cartel in Indonesian
- kartel
- cartel in Persian
- کارتل
Examples of cartel in a sentence
- In this way, cartels of mobbed-up outfits drove everyone else out of the business.
- “In addition, the artisanal mode of production promotes a stable cartel organization of industry by limiting output.”
- The lack of sufficient data makes it impossible to establish a systematic link between the cartels and feminicidal murders.
Forms of cartel
| plural | cartels |
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Origin of cartel
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.
Words formed from cartel
Words that rhyme with cartel
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hell
- hotel
- repel
- smell
- dell
- pell
- quell
- as well
- au naturel
- dwell
- expel
- fell
- gel
- La Rochelle
- lol
- oversell
- stell
- wel
- ABDL
- dispel
- ell
- kell
- knell
- mell
- personnel
- quenelle
- snell
- undersell
- yell
- belle
- death knell
- del
- farewell
- flotel
- foretell
- gazelle
- impel
- mademoiselle
- marcel
- mel
- morell
- Moselle
- motel
- NFL
- overswell
- propel
- pucelle
- rappel
Questions about cartel
- What does cartel mean?
- Cartel means a group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
- What is cartel in Hindi?
- Cartel in Hindi is कार्टेल, कारटेल. See Cartel meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cartel?
- Cartel is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cartel?
- Cartel is pronounced /kɑːˈtɛl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cartel?
- The plural of cartel is cartels.
Words near cartel in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cartel (page history and authors); cartel (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cartel (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartel (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartel (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartel (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cartel (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartel (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartel (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartel (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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