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cartelize

American  
[kahr-tel-ahyz, kahr-tl-ahyz] / kɑrˈtɛl aɪz, ˈkɑr tlˌaɪz /
especially British, cartelise

verb (used with or without object)

cartelized, cartelizing
  1. to organize into a business cartel.


cartelize British  
/ ˈkɑːtəlaɪz /

verb

  1. to form or be formed into a cartel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of cartelize

First recorded in 1925–30; cartel + -ize

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Though the U.S. certainly should not cartelize its industry Japanese-style, Japan's success might stimulate some thinking in Washington as to whether the antitrust laws should be liberalized to promote the nation's competitiveness in world markets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Industry is cartelized to a point that would make John D. Rockefeller envious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nakauchi, 48, has been leading something of a revolution in the stiffly cartelized world of Japanese retailing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The action, an ingenious ploy to lure passengers to Sabena, has brought price competition to the cartelized International Air Transport Association.

From Time Magazine Archive

The immediately pre-Hitler years were the years of the phenomenon of "tired capitalism"; the German cartelized business structure, which was inextricably merged with five big banks, did not know the rules of intramural competition.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the time being business and industry were to be cartelized on a national scale.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel

Like other U.S. watchmakers who import Swiss movements, it has to; the Swiss passed a law in 1951 cartelizing their entire watch industry.

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