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cartel

poster

noun kahr-TEHL Less Common

Origin: French cartel (placard)

Also means

cartel

Usage Note

Cartel means a promotional poster or sign (el cartel del concierto) and also a criminal syndicate or drug cartel (el cártel de Medellín) — note the written accent in the criminal sense is optional but increasingly common. The two senses are entirely context-dependent; in everyday speech the poster sense is more frequent.

Examples

"Pegaron el cartel en la pared del instituto."

Natural Translation

They put up the poster on the school wall.

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