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conglomerate

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
conglomerate /kənˈglɑːmərət/ noun
plural conglomerates
conglomerate
/kənˈglɑːmərət/
noun
plural conglomerates
Learner's definition of CONGLOMERATE
[count] : a large business that is made of different kinds of companies大型企业集团
[count, noncount] technical : a kind of rock that is made from many stones of different sizes held together with hardened clay砾岩
TOEFL BNC: 9077 COCA: 10258

conglomerate

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adjective

con·​glom·​er·​ate kən-ˈgläm-rət How to pronounce conglomerate (audio)
-ˈglä-mə-
: made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds
the conglomerate peoples of New England
a conglomerate empire

conglomerate

2 of 3

verb

con·​glom·​er·​ate kən-ˈglä-mə-ˌrāt How to pronounce conglomerate (audio)
conglomerated; conglomerating

intransitive verb

: to gather into a mass or coherent whole
Infinite numbers of dull people conglomerated round her … Virginia Woolf
conglomerative
kən-ˈgläm-rə-tiv How to pronounce conglomerate (audio)
-ˈglä-mə-;
-mə-ˌrā-
adjective
conglomerator noun

conglomerate

3 of 3

noun

con·​glom·​er·​ate kən-ˈgläm-rət How to pronounce conglomerate (audio)
-ˈglä-mə-
1
: a composite mass or mixture
especially : rock composed of rounded fragments varying from small pebbles to large boulders in a cement (as of hardened clay)
2
: a widely diversified corporation
an international conglomerate of some 350 businesses
conglomeratic adjective

Example Sentences

Verb people conglomerated in the downtown streets for an impromptu victory celebration over the years the town's discarded junk conglomerated at the bottom of the river Noun a news and entertainment conglomerate Our small company must compete with the big conglomerates.
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
More striking is conglomerate Danaher (DHR), whose commons yield a paltry 0.4% while its Series B Preferreds dole out a cool 5%. Brett Owens, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022 Record first-quarter earnings of $200 million at engineering conglomerate DMCI Holdings lifted the fortune of Isidro Consunji and siblings by 47% to $2.65 billion. Forbes Press Releases, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022 Incidentally, the name in question—conglomerate Wanda—is still fresh from cutting its stadium rights relationship with modern-day La Liga giant Atlético Madrid. Henry Flynn, Forbes, 16 July 2022 The need is especially acute in the southern German states, home to industrial giants like BASF chemicals, the automaker Daimler and the conglomerate Siemens. New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021 The major contention behind UMG NA’s spin was allowing it to be valued as per its potential which was lost in the conglomerate nature of VIV FP’s operational structure. Jim Osman, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021 After all, conglomerate BBK owns both brands, alongside other smartphone companies from China like Vivo and Realme. Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Nov. 2021 In 2018 the stock was tossed out of the Dow Jones Industrial average. Culp — who previously ran a mini-conglomerate, Danaher — has spun off or sold many units. Peter Cohan, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021 National Medical was sold to the conglomerate W.R. Grace & Co. and other investors for about $360 million in the mid-1980s and then sold to Fresenius, a German company, a decade later. James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
Verb
About 373 million people in 45 cities were living under some form of lockdown in China last month, according to an estimate from the Japanese financial services conglomerate Nomura Holdings. Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 10 May 2022 It is produced by the LeBron James and Maverick Carter media conglomerate The SpringHill Company in partnership with Marsai Martin and Joshua Martin of Genius Entertainment. Wilson Chapman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022 Rakuten is a global e-commerce and internet services conglomerate headquartered in Japan and getting deeper into entertainment content creation, marketing and distribution businesses. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022 Times Internet, the digital arm of giant Indian media conglomerate the Times Group, operates MX Media Co, the parent company of MX TakaTak and popular streaming platform MX Player. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022 Shares of Bernard Arnault’s luxury goods conglomerate LVMH actually rose slightly this week, adding $4.5 billion to his fortune and propelling him past Bezos into the ever-fluctuating runner-up position. Matt Durot, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2022 PerSeptive developed leading-edge technology in protein analysis, and grew to $100 million in revenue before Afeyan, sold it to scientific instruments conglomerate Perkin-Elmer for $360 million in 1998. Amy Feldman, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021 The pair have traded the title several times this year, as has Bernard Arnault, chief of French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, in an unprecedented year of jockeying atop the billionaire rankings. Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021 Then there was Merck, the pharmaceuticals conglomerate whose association with the Nazis may have been the most lurid of them all. Joshua Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021
Noun
Chief Executive Yves Guillemot led a battle half a decade ago to fend off a takeover attempt by French media conglomerate Vivendi SE. Sam Schechner, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022 After getting rejected by numerous New York media outlets, Andy gets a call from media conglomerate Elias-Clarke for an interview as soon as possible. Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022 In the most recent quarter, the media conglomerate’s streaming losses increased: Disney’s direct-to-consumer revenue was $5.06 billion for the quarter, up 19% — but below Wall Street expectations of $5.2 billion, per FactSet. Todd Spangler, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022 The music major, led by chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge, was spun off by French telecom and media conglomerate Vivendi, which retained a stake of about 10 percent, last fall. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2022 Ackman originally wanted to take a partial stake in Universal Music in a spin-off by French media conglomerate Vivendi. Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 12 July 2022 Jason Williams, senior vice president of Global Inclusion Strategy at Paramount, a media conglomerate that delivers content to audiences worldwide, believes in transparent data and accountability to create change. Jacqueline Prause, Forbes, 18 May 2022 Byron Allen, the longtime comedian turned media conglomerate CEO, has sued Nielsen, the ratings agency, for alleged fraudulent misrepresentation and fraud by concealment. Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 21 Mar. 2022 Additionally, every match — including U.S. Open Cup games — airs on ESPN+, with a select few on ESPN or ESPN2, as part of USL’s league-wide partnership with the media conglomerate. Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Latin conglomeratus, past participle of conglomerare to roll together, from com- + glomerare to wind into a ball, from glomer-, glomus ball — more at clam

First Known Use

Adjective

1572, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1642, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Noun

1818, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of conglomerate was in 1572
TOEFL BNC: 9077 COCA: 10258
conglomerate

noun

ADJECTIVEbig, giant, huge, large, vast大型企業聯合體the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates大型製藥聯合企業global, international, multinational全球/國際/跨國聯合企業one of seven global media conglomerates that dominate the industry主導該行業的全球七大媒體聯合企業之一business, financial, industrial商業/金融/工業聯合企業entertainment, food, media, mining, publishing, etc.娛樂、食品、媒體、礦業、出版等聯合企業

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