Conglomerate

Definition: Conglomerate

Conglomerate

Adjective

1. Composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England".

Noun

1. A composite rock made up of particles of varying size.

2. A group of diverse companies run as a single organization.

Verb

1. Collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "conglomerate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Economics

Geography

Geological

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Conglomerate

Assemblage

Verb: assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.

Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness).

Coherence

Conglomerate, concrete; (density).

Density

Solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete, conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage; casein, crassamentum; legumin.

Crosswords: Conglomerate

Books

• America Online: A Conglomerate Convergence Point [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Conglomerate (reference)

• Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control of Media Means for America and the World (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural industrie (reference)

• Joseph Stalin's Winning Management Strategies for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build and Run a Successful Multi-National Conglomerate Without usi (reference)

• Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Conglomerate International (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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W. S. Bruce leaning against a bed of conglomerate at the entrance to the valley of Lake Richard. Plate V, print 6. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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Business

Both are owned by Techint, an Argentine conglomerate influential with the federal government. (references)

Koctas, the first such materials supermarket, is owned by Koc Holding, Turkey's largest conglomerate. (references)

Glass production in Turkey is a near-monopoly of SISECAM, a conglomerate of about 100 glass-related companies. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malaysia

For example, in January 2000 the group editor in chief of a local press conglomerate was removed after its flagship newspaper, the New Straits Times, carried several articles that reportedly angered the UMNO Supreme Council. (references)

Economic History

South Korea

The high-profile problems of Daewoo, Korea's second-largest conglomerate, have highlighted these weaknesses. (references)

Austria

For many years, the government and its state-owned industries conglomerate played a very important role in the Austrian economy. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

The majority of voting shares in mining conglomerate Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) was sold to the private sector in May 1997 and Telebras was split into 12 firms and privatized in July 1998. Most electric distribution companies have been privatized, but most generation capacity remains under government control. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "conglomerate": publishing conglomerate. Additional references.

Ending with "conglomerate": mini-conglomerate.

Albanian

përziej (admix, adulterate, alloy, attemper, beat, blend, commingle, compound, confound, dash, drag in, embark, emulsify, implicate, intermingle, intermix, jumble, knead, malaxate, mingle, mix, shuffle, stir), masë e formuar nga copëra, konglomerat (pudding stone), grumbulloj (accumulate, amalgamate, amass, assemble, clamp, collect, compile, cumulate, gather, get together, heap, hoard, mass, pile, pool, rally, stack, unite), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite, weld). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كور (ball), ‏كتلة متكتلة, ‏كتلة مختلطة (welter), ‏كتل (agglomerate, ball, lump, mass, masses), ‏معنقد (grape, paniculate, tufted, tufty), ‏تكتل (agglomerate, agglomeration, clot, coalesce, lump, mass). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трупам се (crowd round, flock, flood, mass, mob, throng, troop), конгломерат (agglomeration, pudding stone), образувам конгломерат, натрупвам разнородни елементи. (various references)

Czech

slepenec (pudding stone), konglomerát (conglomeration, Wen). (various references)

Danish

konglomerat (pudding stone), buddigsten (pudding stone). (various references)

Dutch

conglomeraat van bedrijven, conglomeraat (accumulation, agglomeration, conglomeration), puddingsteen (pudding stone). (various references)

Farsi 

کلوخه شده , گردشدن , جوش سنگ , اختلاط (Brew, Integrate, Medley, Mix, Mixture, Welter). (various references)

Finnish

konglomeraatti. (various references)

French

conglomérat. (various references)

German

konglomerat (agglomeration, conglomeration). (various references)

Greek 

κροκαλοπαγές, συσσωρεύω (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, cumulate, heap, hoard, mass, pile), συσσωρεύομαι (accumulate, pile up), συσφαιρώνω, συνενώνω (combine, consolidate, join, merge, unite), γίνομαι μια μάζα. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"צטבר ל�'וש (coagulate), תלקיט (digest). (various references)

Hungarian

összetömörült, összehalmozott. (various references)

Indonesian

kesatuan (corps, erg, unit). (various references)

Italian

conglomerato (mass). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

複合企業 , コロンブスの卵 (Columbus Day, Columbus' egg, computer graphics, conc., concentrated, concert, concert hall, concert master, concertante, concise, conclave, concord, Concorde, concourse, concrete, concrete block, concrete jungle, concrete mixer, concrete pile, concurrent, conga, conglomerate merchant, Congo, congratulations, congress, congress gaiters, conscious, conservation, conservative, conservator, conservatory, consultant, consultant engineer, consulting, consulting sales, consumer, Consumer Interpole, consumering, consumerism, consumers' relation, consumers' research, consumption, contest, CR). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふく�"うきぎょう, コングロマリット . (various references)

Korean 

재벌. (various references)

Manx

scrablag (lithothamnia), jannoo covestey, jannoo bluckan, covestey (admixture, amalgamate, blend, coalesce, co-mix, compound, concoct, incorporate, intermingle, mix, temper), clagh phuiddin. (various references)

Pig Latin

onglomeratecay

Portuguese

conglomerado. (various references)

Romanian

conglomerat (congeries, glomerate), congestionat (bloodshot, congested, crowded), congestiona (congest), strâns (clinging, close, close fitting, closely, crammed, cramped, fast, gathering, in, pressed, serried, tight), se congestiona (congest), se aglomera (congest, crowd, jam), aglomera (accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, crowd, gather, jam, overcrowd, throng), adunat (agglomerate, aggregate, collected). (various references)

Russian 

скопляться (congregate, gather), конгломерат (pudding stone, pudding-stone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nagomilati se (accrete, accrue), konglomerat (conglomeration). (various references)

Spanish

conglomerado. (various references)

Swedish

konglomerat (conglomeration, pudding stone), hopgyttrad (agglomerate), gytter (conglomeration). (various references)

Turkish

yığmak (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank up, cast up, clump, clutter, clutter up, congest, drift, dump, heap up, Hill, lay up, lump, mass, pack, pile, pile on, pile up, put up, roll up, shake down, stack, stock), yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), yığılmak (agglomerate, bank up, draw up, drift, flop, pour, roll up, slump down, subside, swarm), yığılmış (agglomerate), toplanmış (accumulative, agglomerate, aggregate, collected, cumulative, gathered), kümelenmek (build, group together, heap together, heap up), kümelemek (group together, heap together, heap up, mass, stack), küme (aggregate, aggregation, bank, clamp, cloud, clump, cluster, congeries, conglomeration, division, family, group, heap, league, mass, pile, stack, tuft), holdingleşmek, holding (conglomeration, holding company), çakıllı (gravelly, pebbly, shingly), çakıl kayaç. (various references)

Ukrainian

скупчуватися (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, collect, congest, crowd, flock, huddle, throng), конгломерат (aggregation), зібраний (agglomerated, collected, congregate, funded), з'�"днаний (aggregated, amalgamate, amalgamated, associated, congregate, conjugate, coupled, joined, joint, linked), перетворювати на загальну масу. (various references)

Vietnamese 

kết th� nh khối tròn, kết khối. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "conglomerate": conglomerated, conglomerates, conglomerateur, conglomerateurs. (additional references)

Words ending with "conglomerate": anticonglomerate, superconglomerate. (additional references)

Words containing "conglomerate": superconglomerates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conglomerate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clonglomerate, cnglomerate, conglamerate, conglomarate, conglomerat, Conglomerata, conglomerateur, conglomerete, conglomertae, conglommerate, conglomorate, conglorerate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: camerlengo.

-3 letters: coelomate, coeternal, geomancer, latecomer, rectangle, tolerance.

-4 letters: amelcorn, anteroom, carotene, coenamor, colorant, colorman, colormen, corelate, cornmeal, coronate, ecotonal, electron, elongate, lamenter, monocrat, octangle, oogamete, regental, relocate, telegram.

-5 letters: acetone, acrogen, aerogel, almoner, cartoon, cementa, centare, central, clanger, clangor, cleaner, clement, coagent, coelome, cognate, cologne, congeal, control, coolant, coranto, corneae, corneal, coronae, coronal.

+1 letter: conglomerated, conglomerates.

+2 letters: conglomerateur, conglomerative, nongeometrical.

+3 letters: conglomerateurs.

+4 letters: anticonglomerate.

+5 letters: electroretinogram, morphogenetically, superconglomerate.