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cartellike

cartellike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a cartel.

Adjective

cartellike (comparative more cartellike, superlative most cartellike)

  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

Forms of cartellike

comparativemore cartellike
superlativemost cartellike

Origin of cartellike

From cartel + -like.

Questions about cartellike

What does cartellike mean?
Cartellike means resembling or characteristic of a cartel.
What part of speech is cartellike?
Cartellike is an adjective.

Words near cartellike in the dictionary

  1. cartelize
  2. cartelized
  3. cartelizes
  4. cartelizing
  5. cartell
  6. cartellike
  7. cartellisation
  8. cartellisations
  9. cartellization
  10. cartellizations
  11. cartells

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