cartel的词源

英文词源

cartel

cartel: see chart

cartel (n.)

1550s, "a written challenge," from Middle French cartel (16c.), from Italian cartello "placard," diminutive of carta "card" (see card (n.1)). It came to mean "written agreement between challengers" (1690s) and then "a written agreement between challengers" (1889). Sense of "a commercial trust, an association of industrialists" comes 1902, via German Kartell, which is from French. The older U.S. term for that is trust (n.). The usual German name for them was Interessengemeinschaft, abbreviated IG.

中文词源

cartel（卡特尔）：军队之间的书面协议

cartel（卡特尔）指的是同一行业中若干企业达成协议，联合起来控制市场的行为。这个单词来自拉丁语charta（纸），与chart（图纸）同源。在16世纪，cartel指的是书面的挑战书。在17世纪时，该单词表示军队之间达成的交换俘虏的书面协议。俗话说“商场如战场”。生意场上的竞争对手达成的协议自然与交战双方达成的协议有很大的类似性，因此cartel一词从20世纪初开始用来表示原本相互竞争的企业达成协议、联合控制市场的行为。

cartel： [kɑː'tel] n.卡特尔，企业联合，垄断联盟，俘虏交换协议

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：cartel 词源，cartel 含义。

cartel：卡特尔，企业联盟

词源同card, chart.代指在纸上签署的合作协议。