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 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。
• Cartels are allowed to dominate land transactions.
  卡特尔被允许主导土地交易。
• 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。
• Some cartels, such as maritime transport, are officially exempt from anti-trust laws.
  有些卡塔尔（比如海运）被官方正式免于反托拉斯法起诉。
• 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。
• We will be owners of the drug cartels.
  我们将成为毒品集团的所有者。
• 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。
• 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。