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

• Can you imagine the government taking similar action against any of the cartels here?
  一位香港的高管问道：你能想象政府会对这里任何垄断行为采取类似的行动吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The old cartels are being bypassed thanks to technological advances and a more informal society.
  受益于技术进步和更加不拘形式的社会，人们正在绕开传统的垄断集团。
• Mexico's violent reputation-with its feuding drug cartels-is well known.
  墨西哥因暴力肆虐和长期争斗的贩毒集团而闻名。
• But the cartels proved far too clever for the regulators.
  但事实证明，对于监管机构来说，卡特尔实在是太聪明了。