cartel

• n. カルテル; 企業結合; 独占的同盟; 囚人交換条約
• n.(カルテル)人名；(仏)カルテル

語源はカード、チャートと同じ。 紙に署名した協力協定の代わり。

cartel

cartel: see chart

cartel (n.)

1550s, "a written challenge," from Middle French cartel (16c.), from Italian cartello "placard," diminutive of carta "card" (see card (n.1)). It came to mean "written agreement between challengers" (1690s) and then "a written agreement between challengers" (1889). Sense of "a commercial trust, an association of industrialists" comes 1902, via German Kartell, which is from French. The older U.S. term for that is trust (n.). The usual German name for them was Interessengemeinschaft, abbreviated IG.

1. He acted as a frontman for a drugs cartel .

彼は麻薬集団を援護した。

2.Since 1993 OPEC，the oil cartel dominated by Saudi Arabia，has kept its output constant at around 25 m barrels a day.

サウジアラビア主導の石油輸出国組織OPECは1993年以来、石油生産量を1日2500万バレル前後に抑えてきた。

3. Cartel members may defect by behaving competitively.

カルテルの加盟国は、競争を行うことによって裏切りが生じる。

4.Almost no one sincerely likes winter except the oil cartel and the cough syrup magnates.

石油連合組織と咳止めシロップを生産する大手を除いて、冬が本当に好きな人はほとんどいない。

5.In the classic script for a Cartel ，the group sets a unified optimally exploiting price structure.

カルテルの伝統的な手本に従って、このグループは搾取に最も有利な価格構造を統一した。