conglomerate

/kən'glɔmərit/

Thân thiện

A large conglomerate owns many different types of companies.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A large corporation formed by the merging of separate and diverse firms: A "conglomerate" is a major company that owns a collection of smaller companies operating in often unrelated business areas.
   • A rock composed of rounded fragments cemented together: In geology, a "conglomerate" is a sedimentary rock consisting of rounded pebbles and boulders cemented in a finer matrix.

2. Adjective:

   • Gathered into a rounded mass; composed of heterogeneous elements: Describes something that is made up of a clustered collection of varied parts.

3. Verb:

   • To gather or collect into a coherent mass: To form or cause to form a clustered or rounded mass.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Corporate):

  • The media conglomerate owns television networks, film studios, and publishing houses.
  • He works for a multinational conglomerate with interests in energy, retail, and technology.

• Noun (Geological):

  • The cliff face revealed layers of sandstone and conglomerate.
  • The geologist identified the rock as a conglomerate due to the visible, rounded pebbles.

• Adjective:

  • The conglomerate structure of the ancient city showed influences from many cultures.
  • The dessert was a conglomerate mixture of fruits, nuts, and cream.

• Verb:

  • Over millennia, sediment and pebbles conglomerate to form this type of rock.
  • Various political groups began to conglomerate around the central issue.

Advanced Usage

• "to form a conglomerate": This phrase is commonly used in business to describe the process of creating a large, diversified corporation through mergers and acquisitions.
  • The two companies plan to form a conglomerate to dominate the market.

Variants and Related Words

• Conglomeration (n): The process of conglomerating or the state of being conglomerated; a clustered mass.
  • The museum's collection was a fascinating conglomeration of artifacts from different eras.

Synonyms

• Noun (Corporate): Corporation, combine, consortium, group, multinational.
• Noun (Geological): Puddingstone (a specific type).
• Verb: Accumulate, amass, cluster, aggregate, collect.

Antonyms

• Verb: Disperse, scatter, separate, disband.

Related Phrases

• Corporate conglomerate: Specifically emphasizes the business entity.
  • The law regulates the power of corporate conglomerates.
• Financial conglomerate: A conglomerate operating primarily in the financial services sector (e.g., banking, insurance).
  • She took a job at a large financial conglomerate.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass
   • the conglomerate peoples of New England

Noun

1. a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
2. a composite rock made up of particles of varying size

Verb

1. collect or gather
   • Journals are accumulating in my office
   • The work keeps piling up

Từ đồng nghĩa

• empire
• pudding stone
• accumulate
• cumulate
• pile up
• gather
• amass