conglomerate
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- noun
- /kənˈɡlɑː.mə.reɪt/
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conglomerado
- Since they had finished building the factories, the conglomerate was expanding into prospecting.
- a banking conglomerate
- a large conglomerate
- units within conglomerates
This is a Chinese energy company, CEFC China Energy, a Chinese conglomerate.
- This is a Chinese energy company, CEFC China Energy, a Chinese conglomerate.
- MKKR now resembles the sprawling, diversified conglomerates.
- It allowed banks to become conglomerates.
- And it's one of the reasons we've been so successful in America, crowdfunding against conglomerates.
- So this is when you'll see companies like Dell, Lenovo, HP and Acer, which are among the conglomerates that AMD considers OEMs.
- What's great about Ground News is each article they tell you, did a media conglomerate put this news out or was it an independent media?
- So now you have these giant food conglomerates like making tons and tons of food as cheaply as possible.
- All of these issues go back to this, you know, inextricable connect connectivity between government and giant conglomerates.
- They're now a part of a conglomerate and they had this massive, massive machine and this machine would paint the play sets.
- Instead, they focused on building huge conglomerates through acquisitions that did little to benefit their shareholders, but gave them large empires to oversee.
- There's plenty of opportunity for small businesses, giant conglomerates, everything in between.
- So, but what happens with a conglomerate is you end up paying a conglomerate tax.
Examples
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And the company that Pepper runs is the largest tech conglomerate on Earth.
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He was a former head of Textron, a huge conglomerate that has a lot of debt.
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I own the largest conglomerate of newspaper and satellite television companies in the world.
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After the war, large Japanese conglomerates were broken up.
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You cannot build a media conglomerate like that by being agreeable or playing by the rules.
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All these people have gone on to seats on the boards of of arms companies and international conglomerates of all kinds.
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There's plenty of opportunity for small businesses, giant conglomerates, everything in between.
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So now you have these giant food conglomerates like making tons and tons of food as cheaply as possible.
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All of these stations belong to major conglomerates heavily dependent on national and transnational advertising.
Academic text (1996) -
The international conglomerate expanded its operations into renewable energy last year.
Synonyms
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3.7
A large company or group of companies treated by law as one business
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3.9
A group of businesses that one person or group owns and controls
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A company that is legally created to do business
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2.7
A very large company that does business in many countries
Compounds
A large company that owns many smaller companies making books and magazines and runs them together
How Diverse
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3.9
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3.7
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Surface Forms
Morphology
conglomerate = glomerate (opaque) = con + glomer + ate
The corporate sense is a specialized metaphorical extension of 'gathered together', but the base word is rare and the meaning is not readily recoverable for most learners.
Etymology
The word conglomerate comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and glomerare 'to form into a ball'. Think of different companies rolled together into one big group, which is why a business conglomerate is one large company made of many different firms.