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Cartel vs Intercartel - What's the difference?

cartel | intercartel |

As a noun cartel

is a group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.

As an adjective intercartel is

between cartels.

cartel

English

(wikipedia cartel)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
  • A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
  • A written letter of defiance or challenge.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel .
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, p.22:
  • Xerxes'' whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill ''Athos .
  • An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
  • (Wilhelm)
  • (nautical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    intercartel

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Between cartels.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 13, author=Marc Lacey, title=In Mexican City, Drug War Ills Slip Into Shadows, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=What brought the explosion of violence to an end, however, was not just revived law enforcement but the fact that a long intercartel war over the lucrative transit route through Nuevo Laredo had run its course. }}