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？
• Drug cartels have a cash flow problem.
  贩毒组织有资金流动的问题。
• 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。
• Cartels are allowed to dominate land transactions.
  卡特尔被允许主导土地交易。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• If your enterprise had a chance to make a huge amount of money by laundering cash for weapons dealers and drug cartels, would you do it?
  如果你的公司有机会赚一大笔钱，但是得替武器贩子和贩毒集团洗钱，你会干吗？
• 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。