CARTEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cartel mean? 

• CARTEL (noun)
  The noun CARTEL has 1 sense:

1. a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service

  Familiarity information: CARTEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

cartel; combine; corporate trust; trust

Context example:

they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly

Hypernyms ("cartel" is a kind of...):

consortium; pool; syndicate (an association of companies for some definite purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cartel"):

drug cartel (an illicit cartel formed to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugs)

oil cartel (a cartel of companies or nations formed to control the production and distribution of oil)

 Context examples 

But hark ye, coz, I think of sending my cartel also to the prince.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This very day I will send him my cartel and defiance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But there is a cartel pinned upon his breast, and I pray you, Alleyne, to read it to me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would have you bear this in mind, and give great heed to it that you may bring me word of all cartels, challenges, wrongs, tyrannies, infamies, and wronging of damsels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pardieu! because I have sent my cartel, gauntlet, and defiance to Sir John Chandos and to Sir William Felton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Could I but learn his name, I should send you to him with my cartel, that we might have further occasion to watch his goodly feats of arms.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Never had I so much care since first I blew trumpet and showed cartel at the west gate of Southampton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are three hundred and forty-one in the town, said Aylward, and I hear that three hundred and forty cartels and defiances have already been sent in, the only one missing being Sir John Ravensholme, who is in his bed with the sweating sickness, and cannot set foot to ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whatever it was, he was ready for it, whether it were to hold the lists in the court of the King of Tartary, to carry a cartel to the Sultan of Baghdad, or to serve a term against the wild heathen of Prussia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)