Definitions for cartel

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cartel car·tel

Spelling: [kahr-tel]

IPA: /kɑrˈtɛl/

Cartel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in cartel (acelrt).

Definitions for cartel

noun

1. an international syndicate, combine, or trust formed especially to regulate prices and output in some field of business.
2. a coalition of political or special-interest groups having a common cause, as to encourage the passage of a certain law.
3. a written agreement between belligerents, especially for the exchange of prisoners.
4. a written challenge to a duel.

Origin of cartel

1550-60; Middle French Italian cartello letter of defiance, poster, equivalent to cart(a) carte + -ello diminutive suffix

Examples for cartel

A brig was chartered as a cartel, on board of which the Frenchmen were at once sent.

We have been engaged a long time in negotiating a cartel of exchange.

I mean, it just happened to be that the Juárez cartel was—that was the case we were working on at the time.

When this cartel fell into my hands it lacked but an hour of sunset.

How do you feel about Archer and the gang abandoning the cartel and returning to the office?

The notorious Sinaloa cartel boss is trying to use Mexican law to get himself out of jail—and it just might work.

The Escribano was demanded in exchange, according to the cartel.

And he was not the only Sinaloa cartel informant to suffer an abrupt reversal of fortune with ICE.

In the meantime, there is talk that with El Chapo in prison the Sinaloa cartel has a new leader.

Sir Lucius was not out of sight when the Duke had finished reading his cartel.