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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The insatiable demand for illegal drugs in the United States keeps the Mexican drug cartels in business.
  贪得无厌对在美国的非法毒品的需求在商（企）业维持墨西哥毒品组织。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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？
• Predicting the traffickers'next moves has become harder because many cartels have split into smaller groups.
  预估这些破坏者下一步的行动变得更加困难因为许多卡特尔都分散成了小股组织。