HOW TO PRONOUNCE
cartel
/kɑɹˈtɛl/
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What does cartel mean?
noun
- A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
More meanings (4)
noun
- (historical) A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
- (historical) A written letter of defiance or challenge.
- (historical) An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
- (historical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
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IPA pronunciation
/kɑɹˈtɛl/
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Key, pacing the deck of the cartel ship, to which he had been transferred, could not guess the cause of this.
Edward Hyrne, one of Gen. Greene's aids, was commissioned by him to negociate a cartel of exchange of prisoners in Charleston.
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It is with great pleasure I tell you that Mr. Conway is going to Sluys to settle a cartel with the French.
Exchanges of directing personnel and of capital amongst the branches have been recorded for which the term "cartel" is no longer a fair description.
This idea in connection with the cartel of defiance can therefore no longer be made use of in order by such rhodomontade to qualify the inaction of him whose part it is to advance, that is, the offensive.