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Verb
/kənˈglämərət/,
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conglomerates, plural;
  1. Gather together into a compact mass
    • - atoms that conglomerate at the center
  2. Form a conglomerate by merging diverse businesses

Noun
  1. A number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities
    • - the Earth is a specialized conglomerate of organisms
  2. A large corporation formed by the merging of separate and diverse firms
    • - a media conglomerate
  3. A coarse-grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments (> 2 mm) within a matrix of finer grained material
    • - the sediments vary from coarse conglomerate to fine silt and clay
  1. (conglomerate) composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England"
  2. (conglomerate) accumulate: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
  3. (conglomerate) pudding stone: a composite rock made up of particles of varying size
  4. (conglomerate) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
  5. (Conglomerate (company)) A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses together into one corporate structure, usually involving a parent company and several (or many) subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company. ...
  6. (Conglomerate (geology)) A conglomerate is a rock consisting of individual clasts within a finer-grained matrix that have become cemented together. Conglomerates are sedimentary rocks consisting of rounded fragments and are thus differentiated from breccias, which consist of angular clasts. ...
  7. (The Conglomerate) The Conglomerate are a jazz quartet from Melbourne, Australia. The band consists of Harry Angus on trumpet and vocals, Ollie McGill on piano, Jules Pascoe on double bass and Harry Shaw-Reynolds on drums. McGill and Angus are also members of The Cat Empire.
  8. (The Conglomerate (comics)) The Conglomerate is a fictional DC Comics superhero team. They first appeared in Justice League Quarterly #1 (Winter 1990).
  9. (conglomerate) 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; A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix; To combine together into a larger mass; ...
  10. (Conglomerate) a large group of companies under the same ownership. Many independent funeral homes have been sold to these larger regional or national companies. But Brickus is proud to remain an independent, family-owned company. ...
  11. (Conglomerate) A corporation that has diversified its operations usually by acquiring enterprises in widely varied industries.
  12. (Conglomerate) A stone similar to sandstone but the rock particles are rounded or angular gravel rather than sand.
  13. (Conglomerate) Sedimentary rock comprising eroded, rounded particles
  14. (Conglomerate) consolidated deposition formed by cemented gravel fragments.
  15. (Conglomerate) A rock consisting of rounded pebbles held together by a natural cement.
  16. (Conglomerate) A rock made up of rounded pebbles and cobbles in a matrix. Source: Linda Lutz-Ryan
  17. (CONGLOMERATE) A corporate organization in which divergent enterprises retain separate organizational and legal structures but are joined together by the controlling ownership of a corporate holding company. For example, companies B, C, and D may all be owned by company A. ...
  18. (Conglomerate) A broadly diversified corporation that offers a large number of products and/or services in many unrelated industries. Rightly or wrongly, the term connotes a lack of corporate direction by management.
  19. (Conglomerate) A business enterprise in which many unrelated companies form parts of the same corporation. The Loews Corporation, for instance, owns and operates insurance, tobacco, natural gas pipelines, and hotel companies.
  20. (Conglomerate) A cemented clastic rock containing rounded fragments of pebble size gravel; the consolidated equivalent of gravel. The composition of rock or mineral fragments may vary widely in size, but are usually rounded and smoothed from transportation by water or wave action.
  21. (Conglomerate) A clastic rock composed of a fine matrix and rounded clasts. This is in contrast to a breccia.
  22. (Conglomerate) A company directly or indirectly operating in a variety of industries, usually unrelated to each other. Conglomerates often acquire outside companies through the exchange of their own shares for the shares of the majority owners of the outside companies.
  23. (Conglomerate) A corporation operating in several different and unrelated enterprises, such as the movie industry, baking, and oil refining.
  24. (Conglomerate) A firm engaged in two or more unrelated businesses.
  25. (Conglomerate) A term used in geology to describe a coherent mass of water worn pebbles and gravel in cement-like material