Dictionary Definition
conglomerate adj : 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 [syn: pudding
stone]
2 a group of diverse companies under common
ownership and run as a single organization [syn: empire] v : collect or gather;
"Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling
up" [syn: accumulate,
cumulate, pile up, gather, amass]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A cluster of heterogeneous things.
- A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity. example: General Electric Company.
- A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
Translations
A cluster of heterogeneous things
- Finnish: kasauma
- German: Konglomerat
A corporation formed by the combination of
several smaller corporations
- Finnish: konglomeraatti, monialayhtiö, monialayritys
- German: Multikonzern , Mischkonzern , Konglomerat
A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded
in a matrix
- Finnish: konglomeraatti
- German: Konglomerat
Adjective
conglomerate- Clustered together into a mass.
Verb
- To combine together into a larger mass.
- To combine together into a larger corporation.
Extensive Definition
Conglomerate may refer to:
- Conglomerate (company)
- Conglomerate (geology)
- Conglomerate XML editor
- The Conglomerate (comics), a corporate-sponsored superhero team in the DC Universe.
- The Conglomerate, a jazz quartet from Melbourne, Australia.
conglomerate in German: Konglomerat
conglomerate in Spanish: Conglomerado
conglomerate in French: Conglomérat
conglomerate in Indonesian: Konglomerat
conglomerate in Hebrew: קונגלומרט
conglomerate in Malay (macrolanguage):
Konglomerat
conglomerate in Dutch: Conglomeraat
conglomerate in Japanese: コングロマリット
conglomerate in Norwegian: Konglomerat
conglomerate in Russian: Конгломерат
conglomerate in Slovak: Konglomerát
conglomerate in Serbian: Конгломерат
conglomerate in Swedish: Konglomerat
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Aktiengesellschaft,
aa, abyssal rock, accumulate, accumulated, accumulation, acervation, adhere, admix, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, aggroup, aktiebolag, alloy, amalgamate, amalgamated, amass, amassed, amassment, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assemble, assembled, assorted, assortment, basalt, batch, bedrock, bemingle, blend, blended, block, block lava, body, body corporate, brash, breccia, bring together,
bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up,
bunched, bundled, business, business
establishment, cake,
cartel, chain, chamber of commerce,
chunk, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, clump, clumped, cluster, clustered, coagulate, coalesce, cohere, collect, collectanea, collected, colligate, collocate, combine, combined, commercial
enterprise, commingle,
commix, compagnie, company, compare, compile, complex, compose, composite, compound, compounded, concern, concoct, concrete, concretion, congeal, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate
corporation, conglomeration, congregate, congregated, consolidating
company, consortium,
copartnership,
corporate body, corporation, corral, crag, cumulate, cumulation, dappled, dig up, diversified
corporation, draw together, dredge up, drive together, druid stone,
eclectic, embrace, emulsify, enterprise, equivocal, fascicled, fasciculated, festooned
pahoehoe, fifty-fifty, firm, freeze to, fuse, gather, gather in, gather
together, gathered,
gathering, get in, get
together, glomerate,
glomeration,
gneiss, gob, granite, grasp, group, grow together,
half-and-half, hang on, hang together, hash, heaped, heterogeneous, hodgepodge, hold, hold on, hold together,
holding company, homogenize, house, hug, hunk, igneous rock, immingle, immix, in session, indiscriminate, industry, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, intricate, ironic, join, joined, joint, joint-stock association,
joint-stock company, jumble, jumbled, juxtapose, knead, knot, knotted, lava, leagued, limestone, living rock,
lump, lump together,
lumped, magma, make up, mantlerock, many-sided,
mass, massed, match, medley, meeting, merge, metamorphic rock, mingle, mingle-mangle, mingled, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany, mix, mix up, mixed, mixture, mobilize, monolith, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, muster, node, oddments, odds and ends,
omnium-gatherum, operating company, packaged, pahoehoe, pair, partner, partnership, patchy, persist, piled, pillow lava, plunderbund, pluralistic, pool, porphyry, promiscuous, public utility,
pudding stone, put together, raise, rake up, rally, regolith, rock, ropy lava, round up, rubble, rubblestone, sandstone, sarsen, schist, scoria, scramble, scrambled, scrape together,
scree, sedimentary rock,
set, shelly pahoehoe,
shuffle, snowball, solid, solid body, solidify, stacked, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, stir up,
stock company, stockpile, stone, sundries, syncretic, syncretize, syndicate, take hold of, take
up, talus, throw together,
thrown together, toss together, trade association, trust, tufa, tuff, utility, varied, variety, wad, whip in, work, wrapped up