cartel

In the business sense, borrowed from German Kartell, first used by Eugen Richter in 1871 in the Reichstag. In the political sense, which was the vehicle for this metaphor, the English sense as the German sense was borrowed from French cartel in the sixteenth-century, from Italian cartello, diminutive of carta (“card, page”), from Latin charta.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɑːˈtɛl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑɹˈtɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

cartel (plural cartels)

1. (economics) A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.

   drug cartel

   car cartel

2. (historical, politics) A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
3. (historical) A written letter of defiance or challenge.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel.

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , Folio Society, 2006, p.22:

     Xerxes whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill Athos.

4. (historical, law) An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
   • 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:

     He then sent down a flag of truce in military style, proposing a cartel or exchange of prisoners – the corporal for the notary.

5. (historical, nautical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.

• cartelize
• cartelization

• cartel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Claret, arclet, claret, lacert, rectal

Borrowed from Italian cartello.

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.tɛl/

cartel m (plural cartels)

1. A cartel

• “cartel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• clarté
• rectal
• tacler

• IPA^(key): /karˈtel/, [karˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el

Borrowed from Occitan cartel or Catalan cartell. Borrowed from German Kartell, first used by Eugen Richter in 1871 in the Reichstag, borrowed from French cartel in the sixteenth-century, from Italian cartello, diminutive of carta (“card, page”), from Latin charta (“paper”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).

cartel m (plural carteles)

1. poster, placard, bill, banner
2. lineup, billing

• cartelera
• carta

• letrero
• placa
• señal

cartel m (plural carteles)

1. (Colombia) Alternative form of cártel

• “cartel” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.