cartels

英 [kɑːˈtɛlz]

美 [kɑrˈtɛlz]

n.  卡特尔，企业联盟(通过统一价格、防止竞争来增加共同利润)
cartel的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 卡特尔;同业联盟
  Acartelis an association of similar companies or businesses that have grouped together in order to prevent competition and to control prices.
  1. ...a drug cartel...
     贩毒集团
  2. Since 1993 OPEC, the oil cartel dominated by Saudi Arabia, has kept its output constant at around 25m barrels a day.
     自1993年以来,由沙特阿拉伯主导的石油输出国组织欧佩克就一直将石油产量控制在每天2,500万桶左右。

双语例句

• The cartels have been trying to kill me for years.
  那些贩毒的想要杀我已经好几年了。
• The Mexican Ambassador to the US Arturo Sarukhan said they were providing the drug cartels with the means to corrupt, bribe and kill.
  墨西哥驻美国大使萨鲁坎表示，美国的武器和金钱为墨西哥的贩毒集团提供了腐败、行贿和屠杀的手段。
• Much of that violence is blamed on Mexican drug cartels that use the country as a transit point.
  大多数谋杀都是墨西哥贩毒集团制造的，他们把该国当成中转站。
• We will be owners of the drug cartels.
  我们将成为毒品集团的所有者。
• For the first time in history, a national government had taken responsibility to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute monopolies and price-fixing cartels.
  这是历史上第一次有一个国家政府承担责任调查并且在必要时起诉垄断集团和操纵价格的卡特尔。
• He also said lax U.S.gun laws and poor enforcement of them has armed Mexican drug cartels to the teeth.
  他也说他们的涣散的美国枪支法和糟糕的执行力完全（已经）武装墨西哥毒品组织。
• Where possible, boycott the cartels.
  在可能的情况下，应该抵制那些卡特尔。
• Its efforts, they say, have led cartels to battle each other for decreasing profits.
  他们称，这些有力抗击已经导致了卡特尔们为了利润下降而相互争斗。
• With-profits policies are vaguely defined contracts that are probably viable only in the traditional insurance world of benign cartels.
  共享利润保单是一类定义模糊的合同，可能只有在由仁慈卡特尔组成的传统保险世界才是可行的。
• Cartels are allowed to dominate land transactions.
  卡特尔被允许主导土地交易。