Synonyms of the word

cartel

• n. A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
• n. A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
• n. A written letter of defiance or challenge.
• n. An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
• n. (nautical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.

combine

• v. (transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
• v. (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.
• v. (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
• v. (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number…
• v. (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
• n. A combine harvester.
• n. A combination.

consortium

• n. An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of…
• n. A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.
• n. An association or society.
• n. (law) The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.
• n. (biology) A group of symbiotic microbes.

pool

• n. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring…
• n. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
• n. A swimming pool.
• n. A supply of resources.
• v. (intransitive, of a liquid) to form a pool.
• n. (uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking…
• n. A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball…
• n. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the…
• n. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
• n. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player…
• n. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the…
• n. (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated,…
• n. (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common…
• v. (transitive) to put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits…
• v. (intransitive) to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

syndicate

• n. A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common…
• n. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.
• v. (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
• v. (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
• v. (transitive, mass media) To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through…

trust

• n. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
• n. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
• n. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
• n. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
• n. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
• n. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
• n. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
• n. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit…
• n. (law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose…
• n. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities…
• n. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
• v. (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
• v. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
• v. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object).
• v. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
• v. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
• v. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
• v. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
• v. (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
• adj. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
• adj. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
• adj. (law) of or relating to a trust.