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conglomerate

noun
🔊/kənˈɡlɒmərət/
🔊/kənˈɡlɑːmərət/
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  1. [countable] (business商业) a large company formed by joining together different firms联合大公司；企业集团
    • He turned the business into a huge media conglomerate.他令公司成为一个庞大的大众传媒联合集团。
    Extra Examples
    • the giant pharmaceutical conglomerates大型制药联合企业
    • one of seven global media conglomerates that dominate the industry主导该行业的全球七大媒体联合企业之一
    • a/​an chemical/​industrial/​engineering/​mining conglomerate化学／工业／工程／矿业联合集团
    • a/​an vast/​international/​multinational conglomerate一个/庞大/国际/跨国集团
    Topics Businessc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • big
    • giant
    • huge
    • …
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  2. [singular] (formal) a number of things or parts that are put together to form a whole合成物；组合物；聚合物
  3. [uncountable] (geology地质学) a type of rock made of small stones held together by dried clay砾岩
    4. Word Originlate 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.