OIL CARTEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oil cartel mean? 

• OIL CARTEL (noun)
  The noun OIL CARTEL has 1 sense:

1. a cartel of companies or nations formed to control the production and distribution of oil

  Familiarity information: OIL CARTEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OIL CARTEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cartel of companies or nations formed to control the production and distribution of oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("oil cartel" is a kind of...):

cartel; combine; corporate trust; trust (a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oil cartel"):

OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)