cartel
/kɑːˈtel/ (bre, ipa) · /kɑːrˈtel/ (ame, ipa) · /kär-ˈtel/ (ame, mw)
cartel — 名詞
- cartelsingular
- cartelsplural
1. a group of independent businesses or organisations that secretly work together t
卡特爾
企業聯合控制價格與市場的組織
a group of independent businesses or organisations that secretly work together to fix prices, divide up markets, or stop competition, so they can all make more money than they would by competing fairly
The oil cartel agreed to cut daily production and raise prices worldwide.
石油卡特爾同意削減每日產量並提高全球價格。
collocation: oil cartel
Elena's report exposed a cartel fixing the price of generic medicine in Brazil.
Elena 的報告揭露了一個在巴西操控學名藥價格的卡特爾。
Ingrid helped break up a milk cartel that had kept dairy prices high for years.
Ingrid 協助瓦解了一個多年來將乳製品價格維持在高點的牛奶卡特爾。
The cement cartel was fined millions for driving up construction costs across Europe.
該水泥卡特爾因推高歐洲各地的建築成本而被罰款數百萬。
The coffee cartel kept farmer wages low for over a decade, as Dev's research showed.
咖啡卡特爾讓農民工資維持在低點超過十年，正如 Dev 的研究所示。
- consortium
more neutral and often legal; a consortium can be formed openly for a joint project without the secretive, anti-competitive intent of a cartel
- syndicate
often used for groups involved in crime or for distributing content (newspaper syndicate); carries a stronger suggestion of coordinated control
- trust
a historical term from late-19th-century American antitrust law; now used mainly in legal and historical contexts
用法筆記
A cartel involves multiple independent companies cooperating secretly. This is different from a monopoly, where a single company controls the whole market. Cartels are illegal in most countries under competition law.