Cartel vs Triad - What's the difference?
cartel | triad |
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
*, Folio Society, 2006, p.22:
An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
(nautical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
A grouping of three.
(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
(electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
As nouns the difference between cartel and triad
is that cartel is cartel while triad is a grouping of three.cartel
English
(wikipedia cartel)Noun
(en noun)- He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel .
- Xerxes'' whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill ''Athos .
- (Wilhelm)