Definitions for cartels

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cartels car·tel

Spelling: [kahr-tel]

IPA: /kɑrˈtɛl/

Cartels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 355 anagrams from letters in cartels (acelrst).

Definitions for cartels

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 cartels

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

Examples for cartels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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