cartel

1. 1.

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

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

   Synonymstrustcorporate trustcombine

   Broaderconsortium

   Narrowerdrug carteloil cartel

Other forms of cartel

plural

cartels·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cartel

What does cartel mean?

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

How many syllables are in cartel?

cartel has 2 syllables: car-tel. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /kɑɹˈtɛl/.

What is another word for cartel?

Close synonyms include trust, corporate trust, combine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cartel a common word?

cartel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cartel?

8 words rhyme with cartel. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.