Definition of Cartels. Meaning of Cartels. Synonyms of Cartels

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Definition of Cartels

Cartel
Cartel Car*tel", n. [F., fr. LL. cartellus a little paper, dim. fr. L. charta. See 1st Card.] 1. (Mil.) An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. --Wilhelm. 2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. [Obs.] He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel., --Sir W. Scott.
Cartel
Cartel, or Cartel ship, a ship employed in the exchange of prisoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy; a ship beating a flag of truce and privileged from capture.
Cartel
Cartel Car"tel, v. t. To defy or challenge. [Obs.] You shall cartel him. --B. Jonson.

Meaning of Cartels from wikipedia

- core area of cartel activities was in central Europe. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary were nicknamed the "lands of the cartels". Cartels were also...
- level. The formations of drug cartels are common in Latin American countries. Rivalries between multiple drug cartels cause them to wage turf wars against...
- Medellín cartels in the 1990s. By 2007, Mexican drug cartels controlled 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. Arrests of key cartel leaders,...
- parti****nts, the Medellín Cartel and Cali Cartel. The two cartels divided up the major United States distribution points: the Cali Cartel took New York City...
- cartels (or their remnants) such as the Tijuana, Juárez and Sinaloa cartels originally started out as branches or "plazas" of the Guadalajara Cartel before...
- including confrontations with law enforcement and rival cartels. The decline of Colombian cartels, partly due to law enforcement efforts and internal conflicts...
- to establish a cartel or to maintain an existing one, to a strict state control. The understanding of “compulsory cartels” as “cartels” has always been...
- the major cartels have aligned in two factions, one integrated by the Juárez Cartel, Tijuana Cartel, Los Zetas and the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel; the other...
- are controlled by three key cartels: Gulf, Sinaloa and Tijuana—though Tijuana is the least powerful. The Tijuana cartel was further weakened in August...
- oldest and best-established cartels. The Sonora cartel was headed by Miguel Caro Quintero, brother to Guadalajara Cartel co-founder Rafael Caro Quintero...