CONGLOMERATE

Conglomerate

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate group, usually involving a parent company and many subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company. Conglomerates are often large and multinational.

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conglomerate

Noun

  1. A cluster of heterogeneous things.
  2. A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
  3. A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.

Verb

  1. To combine together into a larger mass.
  2. To combine together into a larger corporation.

Adjective

  1. Clustered together into a mass.
    conglomerate flowers
  2. Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rock, cemented together.


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