cartel

See also: cártel

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɑːˈtɛl/

  • Audio (UK)

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

Noun

cartel (plural cartels)

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

   drug cartel

   car cartel

3. (historical, politics) A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
4. (historical) A written letter of defiance or challenge.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:

     He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel.

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

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

5. (historical, law) An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
   • 1832, Washington Irving, Tales of 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.

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

Derived terms

• cartelize
• cartelization
• citation cartel

Descendants

• → Spanish: cártel

Translations

group of businesses or nations that collude to fix prices

• Bulgarian: картел (bg) m (kartel)
• Catalan: càrtel (ca) m
• Chinese:　壟斷聯盟, 行業聯合會, 壟斷利益集團

  Mandarin: 卡特爾 (zh)

• Czech: kartel m
• Danish: kartel n
• Dutch: kartel (nl) n
• Finnish: kartelli (fi)
• French: cartel (fr) m
• German: Kartell (de) n
• Hebrew: קרטל‎ (he) m (kart'el)
• Icelandic: einokunarhringur m
• Indonesian: kartel (id)
• Japanese: カルテル (ja) (karuteru)
• Kazakh: картель (kartel)
• Korean: 카르텔 (ko) (kareutel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kartell (no) n

  Nynorsk: kartell n

• Persian: کارتل‎ (fa)
• Polish: kartel (pl) m
• Portuguese: cartel (pt) m
• Russian: карте́ль (ru) m (kartɛ́lʹ)
• Spanish: cártel (es), cartel (es) m
• Urdu: مافیا‎ (māfiyā) (literally 'mafia')

combination of political groups

• Dutch: kartel (nl) n
• French: cartel (fr) m
• Indonesian: kartel (id)
• Russian: карте́ль (ru) m (kartɛ́lʹ)

written challenge or defiance

• Russian: карте́ль (ru) m (kartɛ́lʹ)

official agreement concerning exchange of prisoners

• Polish: kartel (pl) m
• Russian: карте́ль (ru) m (kartɛ́lʹ)

ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war

Further reading

• cartel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Claret, arclet, claret, lacert, rectal

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cartello, diminutive of carta, from Latin carta. Related to English card.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.tɛl/

• Audio

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Noun

cartel m (plural cartels)

1. a cartel

Descendants

• → Portuguese: cartel
• → Turkish: kartel

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Further reading

• “cartel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• clarté
• rectal
• tacler

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French cartel.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

cartel m (plural cartéis)

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From French cartel.

Noun

cartel n (plural carteluri)

1. cartel

Declension

Declension of cartel

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cartel	cartelul	(niște) carteluri	cartelurile
genitive/dative	(unui) cartel	cartelului	(unor) carteluri	cartelurilor
vocative	cartelule		cartelurilor

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈtel/ [kaɾˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Hyphenation: car‧tel

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Occitan cartel or Catalan cartell.

Noun

cartel m (plural carteles)

1. poster, placard, bill, banner

   Coordinate terms: letrero, placa, señal

2. lineup, billing
   • 2020 January 16, “El Festival Sónar anuncia a The Chemical Brothers, Arca, The Blaze, Richie Hawtin y Laurent Garnier”, in La Vanguardia‎^[1]:

     El 27 Festival Sónar de Barcelona, que volverá a celebrarse en sus fechas habituales este junio en los recintos de Montjuïc y Gran Via de Fira de Barcelona, ha anunciado este jueves su cartel con la presencia de artistas como The Chemical Brothers, Arca, The Blaze, Richie Hawtin y Laurent Garnier, entre un centenar de espectáculos.

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3. the "now-showing" board in a cinema or playhouse

Derived terms

• cartelera
• cartelismo
• cartelista
• pegacarteles

 

Related terms

• carta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cartel, itself borrowed from German Kartell.

Noun

cartel m (plural carteles)

1. cartel (group of businesses that collude to limit competition)
2. criminal organization, mafia, mob

Alternative forms

• cártel

Further reading

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