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/kɑːˈtɛl/ · noun
(economics) A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market..
oil cartel
drug 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.
He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel.
Xerxes whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill Athos.
He then sent down a flag of truce in military style, proposing a cartel or exchange of prisoners – the corporal for the notary.
Use cartel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cartel means (economics) A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market..
Common synonyms include trust, combine.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
oil cartel
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