conglomerate
noun/kənˈɡlɒmərət/
/kənˈɡlɑːmərət/
- [countable] (business) a large company formed by joining together different firms
- He turned the business into a huge media conglomerate.
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc2- the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates
- one of seven global media conglomerates that dominate the industry
- a chemical/an industrial/an engineering/a mining conglomerate
- a vast/an international/a multinational conglomerate
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- giant
- huge
- …
- [singular] (formal) a number of things or parts that are put together to form a whole
- [uncountable] (geology) a type of rock made of small stones held together by dried clay
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective describing something gathered up into a rounded mass): from Latin conglomeratus, past participle of conglomerare, from con- ‘together’ + glomus, glomer- ‘ball’. The geological sense dates from the early 19th cent.; the other noun senses are later.
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