0 a group of similar independent companies who join together to control prices and limit competition: --
an oil cartel
1 a group of similar independent companies or countries who join together to control prices and limit competition --
2 a group of similar companies who agree prices between them in order to increase profits and limit competition: --
At either level, political parties may either run joints lists of candidates or may choose to connect their own lists and form an inter-party cartel.
In practice, however, there are too many potential suppliers and a cartel cannot form through private actions.
Together these points fuelled the creeping centralisation of cartel policy.
They weakened the cartel-like performance of the codes, thus disappointing many initial business supporters.
Secondly, larger numbers of seats reduce the power of minority partners of the cartel, who then find it difficult to threaten unilateral defection.
Moreover, the big companies in industry and trade should form international cartels in order to achieve this aim rapidly.
The government's focus was primarily upon certain drug cartels.
Deciding on tariffs, patents, licenses, taxes, cartels, entry-barriers, the state is simultaneously skewing the exercise of property rights from one elite to another.
