Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To form as or become a cartel.
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- verb To have an
industry become controlled by acartel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In particular, the NIRA of 1933 allowed much of the U.S. economy to cartelize.
Comment of the Week, 2003-08-27, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Navy, and they even got to try to cartelize their industry when they could peaceably agree with each other to restrain trade.
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But in the real world – a world of state intervention to reduce the bargaining power of labor and to cartelize markets among oligopoly firms – the so-called “fallacy” can be quite sensible.
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Part of a rational national healthcare system would make hospitals cartelize their use and purchase of a lot of this equipment.
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The failure of this attempt to cartelize U.S. oil exports further undermined the determined efforts at Achnacarry.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Legislative analysis by a half-dozen states that rebuffed ASID's attempts to cartelize interior design -- including Colorado, Washington and South Carolina -- has failed to support ASID's claim that the location of your couch or the color of your bedroom walls is literally a matter of life and death.
Watch Out for That Pillow Clark Neily 2008
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The failure of this attempt to cartelize U.S. oil exports further undermined the determined efforts at Achnacarry.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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While earlier historians focused attention on the failures of monetary policy, and on the distortions caused by the Hawley-Smoot tariffs, evidence now points more strongly to policies that tried to keep wages artificially high (under Hoover and then Roosevelt) and to cartelize industry (under Roosevelt).
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Roosevelt's National Recovery Act NRA attempted to cartelize the American economy just as Mussolini had cartelized Italy's.
In the Monica Lewinsky scandal — 10 years old now — "Everybody lost, with one exception, or possibly two." Ann Althouse 2008
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As public choice economists have shown, government regulation is often the surest means to cartelize an industry, and that almost always benefits the dominant player.
The Volokh Conspiracy » American Cancer Sociey Ad-Hominem: 2004
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