Definition of conglomerate in English:

conglomerate

noun kənˈɡlɒm(ə)rətkənˈɡlɑmərət

1A thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together.
the Earth is a specialized conglomerate of organisms
地球是一个有机体的专化混合体。
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a conglomerate of three houses opened to one another and built in the old style - with arches, tufa (soft volcanic stone) and many stairs.
- In fact a few of the characters are conglomerates of different people that I came across when I lived there.
- Once a year, a conglomerate of children's literacy-type people (librarians, teachers, museum workers, etc.) from the Pittsburgh area put together a lovely one-day conference featuring a bevy of children's authors and illustrators.
- It's a conglomerate of all of my friends and I thrown together.
- Spinning is done by a conglomerate of home based as well as on site handcraft spinners located in the city of Melo, Uruguay.
Synonyms
mixture, mix, combination, mingling, commingling, amalgamation, amalgam, union, conjunction, marriage, merging, compound, alloy, fusion, meld, composite, concoction, synthesis, homogenization
miscellany, jumble, hotchpotch
informal mash-up
1. 1.1 A large corporation formed by the merging of separate and diverse firms.
  联合大企业；企业集团
  a media conglomerate
  媒体联合企业。
  Example sentencesExamples
  People could not evaluate the true risk of their investments because financial conglomerates were distorting market signals.
  Canada's distilling industry achieved concentration within the industry through horizontal integration or numerous mergers which created large conglomerates where oligopolist firms dominated.
  As a green party councillor totally opposed to multi-national companies and conglomerates, how can l condemn someone for doing something l do myself?
  Freedom of choice in voting is also a myth since the masses really only get to choose between two stooges of big business who have already been hand-picked by the corporate parties and media conglomerates.
  But it does demonstrate that the vast media conglomerates looking to take over the online music market are in rude health.
  The process of globalization, epitomized by the transformation of American corporations into transnational conglomerates, radically and permanently altered the conditions of life for the working class.
  In the distant future, when space travel is common and the solar system has been colonized by Earth, corporate conglomerates hold a firm grip on the space industry.
  Coming from media conglomerates and other corporate giants, that sort of rhetoric is notably self-serving.
  But he scoffed at conspiracy theories suggesting government, corporations and media conglomerates are in cahoots.
  That's equal to 40% of the conglomerate's senior management team.
  Soon the day will come when profitable businesses could process reputation data and resell it to customers ranging from credit card companies to retailers to media conglomerates.
  Indeed, his words have proved true, as present-day giant media corporations and media conglomerates attest.
  After all, we are a corporation, not a conglomerate.
  This is the largest of all of the global media conglomerates, a brash place where swagger and superstar brands are a way of life.
  Speculation is also swirling that insurance and other financial conglomerates could spin off their asset-management arms.
  Now public opinion has come under the control of corporate conglomerates whose primary interest is profit.
  They both concentrate on training on the spot, offering experiences in different types of media, as they are run by diversified media conglomerates.
  Debt-ridden media conglomerates are now considering sales of their music divisions even as they begin to test paid online music services intended to compete with free file-swapping networks and turn the tide.
  Last week, big newspaper companies, broadcast media conglomerates, and their lawyers and brokers and bankers and boards, had all lined up the next big media buying frenzy.
  The print press has sometimes also been victimized by similar cost-cutting strategies, often as a consequence of media mergers by larger conglomerates.
  Synonyms
  corporation, combine, group, grouping, consortium, partnership, joint concern, trust, merger, merged firms/companies/businesses
  firm, company, business, multinational
  Japanese zaibatsu
2Geology
mass noun A coarse-grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments embedded in a matrix of cementing material such as silica.
〔地质〕砾岩
the sediments vary from coarse conglomerate to fine silt and clay
沉积物各不相同，从粗糙的砾岩到精细的泥沙和黏土。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is composed of gray carbonaceous silt-stone and three conspicuous beds of sandstone and conglomerate.
- Bands of sheared sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate locally form broken units indicating deformation prior to full lithification of sediment, consistent with an accretionary complex origin.
- The Annascaul Formation is at least 500 m thick, and is dominated by mudrocks with subordinate quartz wacke sandstones, tuffaceous fine conglomerates and melange.
- The lower Spring Valley Member consists of fluvial to shallow-water sedimentary rocks including conglomerate, sandstone, shale, banded iron formation and localized stromatolitic limestone.
- The plateau is capped by Pennsylvanian sandstone and shale, and lesser amounts of siltstone, conglomerate, and coal.
Synonyms
aggregate, agglomerate

adjective kənˈɡlɒm(ə)rətkənˈɡlɑmərət

Relating to a conglomerate, especially a large corporation.
（与）聚集物（或混合体）（有关）的（尤指联合大企业的）
conglomerate firms
联合大企业中的公司。
Example sentencesExamples
- I read a quote from a major US media conglomerate executive yesterday that ‘The line between news and entertainment is blurring’.
- The conglomerate owners ordered heavy cuts in news budgets, and the networks decided they could save money by becoming partners instead of competitors in gathering exit poll data.
- This has been caused by conglomerate investment in TV.
- However, the exoneration of the conglomerate owners is drawing strong protests from civic activists, supported by some in the legal community.
- The current international scene is so dominated by conglomerate thinking and similarity between brand profiles that it is hard to find an original point of view.
- It also offered the benefit of controlling for potential confounding effects of conglomerate firms.
- In other words, one could see the problem of conglomerate media ownership as threatening at least the process of sending, receiving, and imparting information, if not more aspects of communication.
- Now, they're conglomerate empires and don't need to - hence my use of the word ‘subversive’.
- We coded product extension and conglomerate acquisitions as diversifying acquisitions.
- Well, you see that our measly, oxymoronic ‘will power’ is no match for breakup freakout, not to mention these massive conglomerate phone companies.
- The whole thing makes you wonder whether or not these types of conglomerate businesses really make sense, if the best they can do is simply sell off their most important pieces.
- This is especially true in economic matters, where reporters are understandably prone to self-censor criticism of their conglomerate owners.
- That's going to be more difficult for omnibus conglomerate brands to invoke.
- I might make conglomerate collage-type-things where I just paste sketches onto a single document and upload it as the character picture.
- There is also disagreement on the impact of conglomerate mergers on competition.
- Thus, conglomerate firms grew faster than other firms in the 1960s.
- You were signed to the major label corporate conglomerate thing, you did the American and European concert circuit, and now you've done away with all of that.
- It's not the case that it's been trampled by big conglomerate multinationals.
Synonyms
aggregate, agglomerate, amassed, gathered, clustered, combined

verb kənˈɡlɒməreɪtkənˈɡlɑməˌreɪt

[no object]

1Gather together into a compact mass.
聚结，聚集
atoms which conglomerate at the centre
在中心聚结起来的原子。
Example sentencesExamples
- Gangs of snowflakes made their way across town until they conglomerated in one decidedly ironic location… my driveway.
- They conglomerated together and formed a large lump.
- It then conglomerates them into an annotated list and emails it to your mom and the FBI.
- Recently, however, they began ‘conglomerating’ again.
- Across from his standpoint, a group of trees loomed tall and conglomerated in darkness.
- But as they conglomerated into the mass of people, she was deciding whether or not to remind him he was still unnecessarily touching her.
- The other students had already conglomerated into their groups, and Andrew was off talking with Matthew and flirting with his girlfriend.
- It's quite clear that you are just conglomerating random images and names that are floating around your opium-addled brain, and trying to pass it off as real fact.
- I swallowed a large amount of saliva that had conglomerated in my throat.
- They all conglomerated in the skies like birds of a flock in such dire terror that they voluntarily drowned themselves in the deep waters of the Pacific.
Synonyms
coalesce, unite, join together, combine, merge, fuse, consolidate, amalgamate, integrate, mingle, meld, blend, intermingle, knit (together), link up, converge, come together
literary commingle
1. 1.1 Form a conglomerate by merging diverse firms.
  组成联合大企业，组成企业集团
  the urge to conglomerate has long been out of fashion in American boardrooms
  Example sentencesExamples
  One of the reasons the situation in America is as bad as it is is that bookstores were conglomerated at the same time as the publishers were.
  As soon as the record companies conglomerated, they no longer had the time to spend developing.
  The infighting the Journal refers to is what the media companies got instead of synergy when they conglomerated.
  But there's clearly a threat to diversity and the free flow of information, at least in the near term, of huge companies conglomerating into huger ones and swallowing up news organizations in the process.
  Media companies conglomerated after seeing opportunity in properties that could be synergistically exploited from one medium to another.

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 century; the other noun senses are later.

Rhymes

agglomerate agglomerate

Definition of conglomerate in US English:

conglomerate

nounkənˈɡlɑmərətkənˈɡlämərət

1A number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities.
聚集物，集成物；混合体
the Earth is a specialized conglomerate of organisms
地球是一个有机体的专化混合体。
Example sentencesExamples
- In fact a few of the characters are conglomerates of different people that I came across when I lived there.
- Spinning is done by a conglomerate of home based as well as on site handcraft spinners located in the city of Melo, Uruguay.
- Once a year, a conglomerate of children's literacy-type people (librarians, teachers, museum workers, etc.) from the Pittsburgh area put together a lovely one-day conference featuring a bevy of children's authors and illustrators.
- It's a conglomerate of three houses opened to one another and built in the old style - with arches, tufa (soft volcanic stone) and many stairs.
- It's a conglomerate of all of my friends and I thrown together.
Synonyms
mixture, mix, combination, mingling, commingling, amalgamation, amalgam, union, conjunction, marriage, merging, compound, alloy, fusion, meld, composite, concoction, synthesis, homogenization
1. 1.1 A large corporation formed by the merging of separate and diverse firms.
  联合大企业；企业集团
  a media conglomerate
  媒体联合企业。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Speculation is also swirling that insurance and other financial conglomerates could spin off their asset-management arms.
  Canada's distilling industry achieved concentration within the industry through horizontal integration or numerous mergers which created large conglomerates where oligopolist firms dominated.
  But he scoffed at conspiracy theories suggesting government, corporations and media conglomerates are in cahoots.
  This is the largest of all of the global media conglomerates, a brash place where swagger and superstar brands are a way of life.
  After all, we are a corporation, not a conglomerate.
  In the distant future, when space travel is common and the solar system has been colonized by Earth, corporate conglomerates hold a firm grip on the space industry.
  Soon the day will come when profitable businesses could process reputation data and resell it to customers ranging from credit card companies to retailers to media conglomerates.
  Last week, big newspaper companies, broadcast media conglomerates, and their lawyers and brokers and bankers and boards, had all lined up the next big media buying frenzy.
  Debt-ridden media conglomerates are now considering sales of their music divisions even as they begin to test paid online music services intended to compete with free file-swapping networks and turn the tide.
  Freedom of choice in voting is also a myth since the masses really only get to choose between two stooges of big business who have already been hand-picked by the corporate parties and media conglomerates.
  People could not evaluate the true risk of their investments because financial conglomerates were distorting market signals.
  They both concentrate on training on the spot, offering experiences in different types of media, as they are run by diversified media conglomerates.
  But it does demonstrate that the vast media conglomerates looking to take over the online music market are in rude health.
  The print press has sometimes also been victimized by similar cost-cutting strategies, often as a consequence of media mergers by larger conglomerates.
  Indeed, his words have proved true, as present-day giant media corporations and media conglomerates attest.
  The process of globalization, epitomized by the transformation of American corporations into transnational conglomerates, radically and permanently altered the conditions of life for the working class.
  Now public opinion has come under the control of corporate conglomerates whose primary interest is profit.
  Coming from media conglomerates and other corporate giants, that sort of rhetoric is notably self-serving.
  That's equal to 40% of the conglomerate's senior management team.
  As a green party councillor totally opposed to multi-national companies and conglomerates, how can l condemn someone for doing something l do myself?
  Synonyms
  corporation, combine, group, grouping, consortium, partnership, joint concern, trust, merger, merged businesses, merged companies, merged firms
2Geology
A coarse-grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments (> 2 mm) within a matrix of finer grained material.
〔地质〕砾岩
the sediments vary from coarse conglomerate to fine silt and clay
沉积物各不相同，从粗糙的砾岩到精细的泥沙和黏土。
Example sentencesExamples
- The plateau is capped by Pennsylvanian sandstone and shale, and lesser amounts of siltstone, conglomerate, and coal.
- The lower Spring Valley Member consists of fluvial to shallow-water sedimentary rocks including conglomerate, sandstone, shale, banded iron formation and localized stromatolitic limestone.
- It is composed of gray carbonaceous silt-stone and three conspicuous beds of sandstone and conglomerate.
- The Annascaul Formation is at least 500 m thick, and is dominated by mudrocks with subordinate quartz wacke sandstones, tuffaceous fine conglomerates and melange.
- Bands of sheared sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate locally form broken units indicating deformation prior to full lithification of sediment, consistent with an accretionary complex origin.
Synonyms
aggregate, agglomerate

adjectivekənˈɡlämərətkənˈɡlɑmərət

Relating to a conglomerate, especially a large corporation.
（与）聚集物（或混合体）（有关）的（尤指联合大企业的）
conglomerate businesses
Example sentencesExamples
- I might make conglomerate collage-type-things where I just paste sketches onto a single document and upload it as the character picture.
- This is especially true in economic matters, where reporters are understandably prone to self-censor criticism of their conglomerate owners.
- Now, they're conglomerate empires and don't need to - hence my use of the word ‘subversive’.
- Thus, conglomerate firms grew faster than other firms in the 1960s.
- It also offered the benefit of controlling for potential confounding effects of conglomerate firms.
- This has been caused by conglomerate investment in TV.
- I read a quote from a major US media conglomerate executive yesterday that ‘The line between news and entertainment is blurring’.
- In other words, one could see the problem of conglomerate media ownership as threatening at least the process of sending, receiving, and imparting information, if not more aspects of communication.
- It's not the case that it's been trampled by big conglomerate multinationals.
- The current international scene is so dominated by conglomerate thinking and similarity between brand profiles that it is hard to find an original point of view.
- There is also disagreement on the impact of conglomerate mergers on competition.
- Well, you see that our measly, oxymoronic ‘will power’ is no match for breakup freakout, not to mention these massive conglomerate phone companies.
- That's going to be more difficult for omnibus conglomerate brands to invoke.
- We coded product extension and conglomerate acquisitions as diversifying acquisitions.
- You were signed to the major label corporate conglomerate thing, you did the American and European concert circuit, and now you've done away with all of that.
- However, the exoneration of the conglomerate owners is drawing strong protests from civic activists, supported by some in the legal community.
- The conglomerate owners ordered heavy cuts in news budgets, and the networks decided they could save money by becoming partners instead of competitors in gathering exit poll data.
- The whole thing makes you wonder whether or not these types of conglomerate businesses really make sense, if the best they can do is simply sell off their most important pieces.
Synonyms
aggregate, agglomerate, amassed, gathered, clustered, combined

verbkənˈɡläməˌrātkənˈɡlɑməˌreɪt

[no object]

1Gather together into a compact mass.
聚结，聚集
atoms that conglomerate at the center
在中心聚结起来的原子。
Example sentencesExamples
- I swallowed a large amount of saliva that had conglomerated in my throat.
- They conglomerated together and formed a large lump.
- But as they conglomerated into the mass of people, she was deciding whether or not to remind him he was still unnecessarily touching her.
- It's quite clear that you are just conglomerating random images and names that are floating around your opium-addled brain, and trying to pass it off as real fact.
- Across from his standpoint, a group of trees loomed tall and conglomerated in darkness.
- They all conglomerated in the skies like birds of a flock in such dire terror that they voluntarily drowned themselves in the deep waters of the Pacific.
- Gangs of snowflakes made their way across town until they conglomerated in one decidedly ironic location… my driveway.
- The other students had already conglomerated into their groups, and Andrew was off talking with Matthew and flirting with his girlfriend.
- It then conglomerates them into an annotated list and emails it to your mom and the FBI.
- Recently, however, they began ‘conglomerating’ again.
Synonyms
coalesce, unite, join together, combine, merge, fuse, consolidate, amalgamate, integrate, mingle, meld, blend, intermingle, knit, knit together, link up, converge, come together
1. 1.1 Form a conglomerate by merging diverse businesses.
  组成联合大企业，组成企业集团
  Example sentencesExamples
  One of the reasons the situation in America is as bad as it is is that bookstores were conglomerated at the same time as the publishers were.
  Media companies conglomerated after seeing opportunity in properties that could be synergistically exploited from one medium to another.
  But there's clearly a threat to diversity and the free flow of information, at least in the near term, of huge companies conglomerating into huger ones and swallowing up news organizations in the process.
  The infighting the Journal refers to is what the media companies got instead of synergy when they conglomerated.
  As soon as the record companies conglomerated, they no longer had the time to spend developing.

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 century; the other noun senses are later.

词汇	conglomerate
释义	Definition of conglomerate in English: conglomerate noun kənˈɡlɒm(ə)rətkənˈɡlɑmərət 1A thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together. the Earth is a specialized conglomerate of organisms 地球是一个有机体的专化混合体。 Example sentencesExamples It's a conglomerate of three houses opened to one another and built in the old style - with arches, tufa (soft volcanic stone) and many stairs. In fact a few of the characters are conglomerates of different people that I came across when I lived there. Once a year, a conglomerate of children's literacy-type people (librarians, teachers, museum workers, etc.) from the Pittsburgh area put together a lovely one-day conference featuring a bevy of children's authors and illustrators. It's a conglomerate of all of my friends and I thrown together. Spinning is done by a conglomerate of home based as well as on site handcraft spinners located in the city of Melo, Uruguay. Synonyms mixture, mix, combination, mingling, commingling, amalgamation, amalgam, union, conjunction, marriage, merging, compound, alloy, fusion, meld, composite, concoction, synthesis, homogenization miscellany, jumble, hotchpotch informal mash-up 1.1 A large corporation formed by the merging of separate and diverse firms. 联合大企业；企业集团 a media conglomerate 媒体联合企业。 Example sentencesExamples People could not evaluate the true risk of their investments because financial conglomerates were distorting market signals. Canada's distilling industry achieved concentration within the industry through horizontal integration or numerous mergers which created large conglomerates where oligopolist firms dominated. As a green party councillor totally opposed to multi-national companies and conglomerates, how can l condemn someone for doing something l do myself? Freedom of choice in voting is also a myth since the masses really only get to choose between two stooges of big business who have already been hand-picked by the corporate parties and media conglomerates. But it does demonstrate that the vast media conglomerates looking to take over the online music market are in rude health. The process of globalization, epitomized by the transformation of American corporations into transnational conglomerates, radically and permanently altered the conditions of life for the working class. In the distant future, when space travel is common and the solar system has been colonized by Earth, corporate conglomerates hold a firm grip on the space industry. Coming from media conglomerates and other corporate giants, that sort of rhetoric is notably self-serving. But he scoffed at conspiracy theories suggesting government, corporations and media conglomerates are in cahoots. That's equal to 40% of the conglomerate's senior management team. Soon the day will come when profitable businesses could process reputation data and resell it to customers ranging from credit card companies to retailers to media conglomerates. Indeed, his words have proved true, as present-day giant media corporations and media conglomerates attest. After all, we are a corporation, not a conglomerate. This is the largest of all of the global media conglomerates, a brash place where swagger and superstar brands are a way of life. Speculation is also swirling that insurance and other financial conglomerates could spin off their asset-management arms. Now public opinion has come under the control of corporate conglomerates whose primary interest is profit. They both concentrate on training on the spot, offering experiences in different types of media, as they are run by diversified media conglomerates. Debt-ridden media conglomerates are now considering sales of their music divisions even as they begin to test paid online music services intended to compete with free file-swapping networks and turn the tide. Last week, big newspaper companies, broadcast media conglomerates, and their lawyers and brokers and bankers and boards, had all lined up the next big media buying frenzy. The print press has sometimes also been victimized by similar cost-cutting strategies, often as a consequence of media mergers by larger conglomerates. Synonyms corporation, combine, group, grouping, consortium, partnership, joint concern, trust, merger, merged firms/companies/businesses firm, company, business, multinational Japanese zaibatsu 2Geology mass noun A coarse-grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments embedded in a matrix of cementing material such as silica. 〔地质〕砾岩 the sediments vary from coarse conglomerate to fine silt and clay 沉积物各不相同，从粗糙的砾岩到精细的泥沙和黏土。 Example sentencesExamples It is composed of gray carbonaceous silt-stone and three conspicuous beds of sandstone and conglomerate. Bands of sheared sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate locally form broken units indicating deformation prior to full lithification of sediment, consistent with an accretionary complex origin. The Annascaul Formation is at least 500 m thick, and is dominated by mudrocks with subordinate quartz wacke sandstones, tuffaceous fine conglomerates and melange. The lower Spring Valley Member consists of fluvial to shallow-water sedimentary rocks including conglomerate, sandstone, shale, banded iron formation and localized stromatolitic limestone. The plateau is capped by Pennsylvanian sandstone and shale, and lesser amounts of siltstone, conglomerate, and coal. Synonyms aggregate, agglomerate adjective kənˈɡlɒm(ə)rətkənˈɡlɑmərət Relating to a conglomerate, especially a large corporation. （与）聚集物（或混合体）（有关）的（尤指联合大企业的） conglomerate firms 联合大企业中的公司。 Example sentencesExamples I read a quote from a major US media conglomerate executive yesterday that ‘The line between news and entertainment is blurring’. The conglomerate owners ordered heavy cuts in news budgets, and the networks decided they could save money by becoming partners instead of competitors in gathering exit poll data. This has been caused by conglomerate investment in TV. However, the exoneration of the conglomerate owners is drawing strong protests from civic activists, supported by some in the legal community. The current international scene is so dominated by conglomerate thinking and similarity between brand profiles that it is hard to find an original point of view. It also offered the benefit of controlling for potential confounding effects of conglomerate firms. In other words, one could see the problem of conglomerate media ownership as threatening at least the process of sending, receiving, and imparting information, if not more aspects of communication. Now, they're conglomerate empires and don't need to - hence my use of the word ‘subversive’. We coded product extension and conglomerate acquisitions as diversifying acquisitions. Well, you see that our measly, oxymoronic ‘will power’ is no match for breakup freakout, not to mention these massive conglomerate phone companies. The whole thing makes you wonder whether or not these types of conglomerate businesses really make sense, if the best they can do is simply sell off their most important pieces. This is especially true in economic matters, where reporters are understandably prone to self-censor criticism of their conglomerate owners. That's going to be more difficult for omnibus conglomerate brands to invoke. I might make conglomerate collage-type-things where I just paste sketches onto a single document and upload it as the character picture. There is also disagreement on the impact of conglomerate mergers on competition. Thus, conglomerate firms grew faster than other firms in the 1960s. You were signed to the major label corporate conglomerate thing, you did the American and European concert circuit, and now you've done away with all of that. It's not the case that it's been trampled by big conglomerate multinationals. Synonyms aggregate, agglomerate, amassed, gathered, clustered, combined verb kənˈɡlɒməreɪtkənˈɡlɑməˌreɪt [no object] 1Gather together into a compact mass. 聚结，聚集 atoms which conglomerate at the centre 在中心聚结起来的原子。 Example sentencesExamples Gangs of snowflakes made their way across town until they conglomerated in one decidedly ironic location… my driveway. They conglomerated together and formed a large lump. It then conglomerates them into an annotated list and emails it to your mom and the FBI. Recently, however, they began ‘conglomerating’ again. Across from his standpoint, a group of trees loomed tall and conglomerated in darkness. But as they conglomerated into the mass of people, she was deciding whether or not to remind him he was still unnecessarily touching her. The other students had already conglomerated into their groups, and Andrew was off talking with Matthew and flirting with his girlfriend. It's quite clear that you are just conglomerating random images and names that are floating around your opium-addled brain, and trying to pass it off as real fact. I swallowed a large amount of saliva that had conglomerated in my throat. They all conglomerated in the skies like birds of a flock in such dire terror that they voluntarily drowned themselves in the deep waters of the Pacific. Synonyms coalesce, unite, join together, combine, merge, fuse, consolidate, amalgamate, integrate, mingle, meld, blend, intermingle, knit (together), link up, converge, come together literary commingle 1.1 Form a conglomerate by merging diverse firms. 组成联合大企业，组成企业集团 the urge to conglomerate has long been out of fashion in American boardrooms Example sentencesExamples One of the reasons the situation in America is as bad as it is is that bookstores were conglomerated at the same time as the publishers were. As soon as the record companies conglomerated, they no longer had the time to spend developing. The infighting the Journal refers to is what the media companies got instead of synergy when they conglomerated. But there's clearly a threat to diversity and the free flow of information, at least in the near term, of huge companies conglomerating into huger ones and swallowing up news organizations in the process. Media companies conglomerated after seeing opportunity in properties that could be synergistically exploited from one medium to another. 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 century; the other noun senses are later. Rhymes agglomerate agglomerate Definition of conglomerate in US English: conglomerate nounkənˈɡlɑmərətkənˈɡlämərət 1A number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities. 聚集物，集成物；混合体 the Earth is a specialized conglomerate of organisms 地球是一个有机体的专化混合体。 Example sentencesExamples In fact a few of the characters are conglomerates of different people that I came across when I lived there. Spinning is done by a conglomerate of home based as well as on site handcraft spinners located in the city of Melo, Uruguay. Once a year, a conglomerate of children's literacy-type people (librarians, teachers, museum workers, etc.) from the Pittsburgh area put together a lovely one-day conference featuring a bevy of children's authors and illustrators. It's a conglomerate of three houses opened to one another and built in the old style - with arches, tufa (soft volcanic stone) and many stairs. It's a conglomerate of all of my friends and I thrown together. Synonyms mixture, mix, combination, mingling, commingling, amalgamation, amalgam, union, conjunction, marriage, merging, compound, alloy, fusion, meld, composite, concoction, synthesis, homogenization 1.1 A large corporation formed by the merging of separate and diverse firms. 联合大企业；企业集团 a media conglomerate 媒体联合企业。 Example sentencesExamples Speculation is also swirling that insurance and other financial conglomerates could spin off their asset-management arms. Canada's distilling industry achieved concentration within the industry through horizontal integration or numerous mergers which created large conglomerates where oligopolist firms dominated. But he scoffed at conspiracy theories suggesting government, corporations and media conglomerates are in cahoots. This is the largest of all of the global media conglomerates, a brash place where swagger and superstar brands are a way of life. After all, we are a corporation, not a conglomerate. In the distant future, when space travel is common and the solar system has been colonized by Earth, corporate conglomerates hold a firm grip on the space industry. Soon the day will come when profitable businesses could process reputation data and resell it to customers ranging from credit card companies to retailers to media conglomerates. Last week, big newspaper companies, broadcast media conglomerates, and their lawyers and brokers and bankers and boards, had all lined up the next big media buying frenzy. Debt-ridden media conglomerates are now considering sales of their music divisions even as they begin to test paid online music services intended to compete with free file-swapping networks and turn the tide. Freedom of choice in voting is also a myth since the masses really only get to choose between two stooges of big business who have already been hand-picked by the corporate parties and media conglomerates. People could not evaluate the true risk of their investments because financial conglomerates were distorting market signals. They both concentrate on training on the spot, offering experiences in different types of media, as they are run by diversified media conglomerates. But it does demonstrate that the vast media conglomerates looking to take over the online music market are in rude health. The print press has sometimes also been victimized by similar cost-cutting strategies, often as a consequence of media mergers by larger conglomerates. Indeed, his words have proved true, as present-day giant media corporations and media conglomerates attest. The process of globalization, epitomized by the transformation of American corporations into transnational conglomerates, radically and permanently altered the conditions of life for the working class. Now public opinion has come under the control of corporate conglomerates whose primary interest is profit. Coming from media conglomerates and other corporate giants, that sort of rhetoric is notably self-serving. That's equal to 40% of the conglomerate's senior management team. As a green party councillor totally opposed to multi-national companies and conglomerates, how can l condemn someone for doing something l do myself? Synonyms corporation, combine, group, grouping, consortium, partnership, joint concern, trust, merger, merged businesses, merged companies, merged firms 2Geology A coarse-grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments (> 2 mm) within a matrix of finer grained material. 〔地质〕砾岩 the sediments vary from coarse conglomerate to fine silt and clay 沉积物各不相同，从粗糙的砾岩到精细的泥沙和黏土。 Example sentencesExamples The plateau is capped by Pennsylvanian sandstone and shale, and lesser amounts of siltstone, conglomerate, and coal. The lower Spring Valley Member consists of fluvial to shallow-water sedimentary rocks including conglomerate, sandstone, shale, banded iron formation and localized stromatolitic limestone. It is composed of gray carbonaceous silt-stone and three conspicuous beds of sandstone and conglomerate. The Annascaul Formation is at least 500 m thick, and is dominated by mudrocks with subordinate quartz wacke sandstones, tuffaceous fine conglomerates and melange. Bands of sheared sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate locally form broken units indicating deformation prior to full lithification of sediment, consistent with an accretionary complex origin. Synonyms aggregate, agglomerate adjectivekənˈɡlämərətkənˈɡlɑmərət Relating to a conglomerate, especially a large corporation. （与）聚集物（或混合体）（有关）的（尤指联合大企业的） conglomerate businesses Example sentencesExamples I might make conglomerate collage-type-things where I just paste sketches onto a single document and upload it as the character picture. This is especially true in economic matters, where reporters are understandably prone to self-censor criticism of their conglomerate owners. Now, they're conglomerate empires and don't need to - hence my use of the word ‘subversive’. Thus, conglomerate firms grew faster than other firms in the 1960s. It also offered the benefit of controlling for potential confounding effects of conglomerate firms. This has been caused by conglomerate investment in TV. I read a quote from a major US media conglomerate executive yesterday that ‘The line between news and entertainment is blurring’. In other words, one could see the problem of conglomerate media ownership as threatening at least the process of sending, receiving, and imparting information, if not more aspects of communication. It's not the case that it's been trampled by big conglomerate multinationals. The current international scene is so dominated by conglomerate thinking and similarity between brand profiles that it is hard to find an original point of view. There is also disagreement on the impact of conglomerate mergers on competition. Well, you see that our measly, oxymoronic ‘will power’ is no match for breakup freakout, not to mention these massive conglomerate phone companies. That's going to be more difficult for omnibus conglomerate brands to invoke. We coded product extension and conglomerate acquisitions as diversifying acquisitions. You were signed to the major label corporate conglomerate thing, you did the American and European concert circuit, and now you've done away with all of that. However, the exoneration of the conglomerate owners is drawing strong protests from civic activists, supported by some in the legal community. The conglomerate owners ordered heavy cuts in news budgets, and the networks decided they could save money by becoming partners instead of competitors in gathering exit poll data. The whole thing makes you wonder whether or not these types of conglomerate businesses really make sense, if the best they can do is simply sell off their most important pieces. Synonyms aggregate, agglomerate, amassed, gathered, clustered, combined verbkənˈɡläməˌrātkənˈɡlɑməˌreɪt [no object] 1Gather together into a compact mass. 聚结，聚集 atoms that conglomerate at the center 在中心聚结起来的原子。 Example sentencesExamples I swallowed a large amount of saliva that had conglomerated in my throat. They conglomerated together and formed a large lump. But as they conglomerated into the mass of people, she was deciding whether or not to remind him he was still unnecessarily touching her. It's quite clear that you are just conglomerating random images and names that are floating around your opium-addled brain, and trying to pass it off as real fact. Across from his standpoint, a group of trees loomed tall and conglomerated in darkness. They all conglomerated in the skies like birds of a flock in such dire terror that they voluntarily drowned themselves in the deep waters of the Pacific. Gangs of snowflakes made their way across town until they conglomerated in one decidedly ironic location… my driveway. The other students had already conglomerated into their groups, and Andrew was off talking with Matthew and flirting with his girlfriend. It then conglomerates them into an annotated list and emails it to your mom and the FBI. Recently, however, they began ‘conglomerating’ again. Synonyms coalesce, unite, join together, combine, merge, fuse, consolidate, amalgamate, integrate, mingle, meld, blend, intermingle, knit, knit together, link up, converge, come together 1.1 Form a conglomerate by merging diverse businesses. 组成联合大企业，组成企业集团 Example sentencesExamples One of the reasons the situation in America is as bad as it is is that bookstores were conglomerated at the same time as the publishers were. Media companies conglomerated after seeing opportunity in properties that could be synergistically exploited from one medium to another. But there's clearly a threat to diversity and the free flow of information, at least in the near term, of huge companies conglomerating into huger ones and swallowing up news organizations in the process. The infighting the Journal refers to is what the media companies got instead of synergy when they conglomerated. As soon as the record companies conglomerated, they no longer had the time to spend developing. 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 century; the other noun senses are later.
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