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καρτέλ
cartel /karˈtel/
nounC1#3181 most common
Also: price-fixing bloc, trust (business combine)
Example sentences
Το καρτέλ είναι παράνομο.
The cartel is illegal.
Η αστυνομία συνέλαβε μέλη του καρτέλ.
The police arrested members of the cartel.
Το καρτέλ ελέγχει την τιμή του πετρελαίου.
The cartel controls the price of oil.
Οι εταιρείες σχημάτισαν ένα καρτέλ για να καθορίζουν τις τιμές.
The companies formed a cartel to fix prices.
Η επιτροπή ανταγωνισμού διερεύνησε τη δράση καρτέλ ναρκωτικών στη χώρα.
The competition authority investigated the activity of a drug cartel in the country.
Παρά τις κυρώσεις, το διεθνές καρτέλ συνέχισε να νοθεύει τον ανταγωνισμό στην αγορά ενέργειας.
Despite the sanctions, the international cartel kept distorting competition in the energy market.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | το καρτέλ | τα καρτέλ |
| Genitive | του καρτέλ | των καρτέλ |
| Accusative | το καρτέλ | τα καρτέλ |
| Vocative | καρτέλ | καρτέλ |
Word family
καρτελοποίησηcartelization, the forming of a cartel
καρτελικόςrelating to a cartel, cartel-like
ανταγωνισμόςcompetition (the market condition a cartel undermines)Etymology
Greek borrowed καρτέλ directly from French cartel in the twentieth century, in its economic sense of firms agreeing to fix prices or output. French cartel came from Italian cartello, a placard or written challenge, itself a diminutive of carta, meaning paper. Carta traces to Latin charta, a sheet of papyrus, which Latin took from Greek χάρτης. So the word left Greek in ancient form, passed through Latin, Italian, and French, and returned centuries later with a new, specialized business meaning.
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