Words similar to cartel

Example sentences for: cartel

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The tobacco cartel also fractured in 1996 when the runt of the litter, Liggett, sensed the power shifting and cut a separate deal.
For instance, its biggest extortion schemes in the New York area have been broken up: It no longer controls wholesale food (the City Council broke its hold on Fulton Fish Market) or Long Island's garbage-removal cartel.
Sometime before we end this conversation, I'd love to know what you make of Clark's latest idea--to create a cartel of "high-net-worth individuals" and engage in billionaire collective bargaining.
Instead of a tightly disciplined cartel administering prices to a supine world market, OPEC more closely resembles a fractious trade association struggling to bring supply in line with demand even as its efforts are sabotaged by its own members.
The current New York Observer has a long piece about Rupert's roping ABC and CBS News into a footage-sharing cartel, with the main purpose being to get CNN's footage (and logo) off all three networks' affiliates.