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

• Price-fixing cartels were stopped in their tracks and the notorious Northern Securities and Standard Oil trusts were no more.
  联合定价的卡特尔被遏止，恶名昭彰的北方证券和标准石油托拉斯不复存在。
• Police in Colombia have arrested a man they say is the main link between a Colombian drug gang and one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels.
  哥伦比亚警方称他们逮捕了一名男子，他们称，此人是哥伦比亚毒品团伙和墨西哥最有势力的毒品卡特尔之间的联络人。
• When he was writing, the main interest groups were trade unions and business cartels.
  当奥尔森写下上述文字的时候，主要利益集团是工会和商业卡塔尔。
• Honduran traffickers, said Funes, are the offspring of the Mexican Cartels.
  富内斯说，洪都拉斯的毒贩们从墨西哥贩毒集团衍生而来。
• The demand for drugs in the United States is what is helping to keep these cartels in business.
  美国方面对毒品的需求使这些毒枭有生意可做。
• 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。
• So if Apple has more cash than the government and drug cartels have more cash than Apple, what does that say?
  如果苹果比政府更有钱和贩毒比苹果更有钱，你将怎么说？
• Drug cartels have a cash flow problem.
  贩毒组织有资金流动的问题。
• 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。
• Associations with Mexican drug cartels and Iranian militants or documented solicitation of price fixing usually attract the attention of federal prosecutors.
  与墨西哥贩毒集团和伊朗好战分子的任何牵连，或者是教唆价格操纵的记录往往都会引起联邦检察官的注意。