conglomerate
conglomerate
/kənˈɡlɒmərət/
1 countable (business) a large company formed by joining together different firms He turned the business into a huge media conglomerate.
the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates
one of seven global media conglomerates that dominate the industry
a/an chemical/industrial/engineering/mining conglomerate
a/an vast/international/multinational conglomerate
Collocations
adjective
2 singular (formal) a number of things or parts that are put together to form a whole 3 uncountable (geology) a type of rock made of small stones held together by dried clay Word Origin
late 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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