| 单词 | conglomerate |
| 释义 | conglomerate (once / 2020 pages) vadjn A conglomerate is a group of things, especially companies, put together to form one. If you are rich enough to buy a TV network, a record company, several newspapers, and a radio station, you too can own a media conglomerate. The root of conglomerate is glomus, a Latin word for “ball.” So think of a conglomerate as a bunch of different things balled together. Before it came to describe giant corporations, a conglomerate was a rock formed from different kinds of minerals. Conglomerate can also be used as a verb — like when your media companies conglomerated successfully. WORD FAMILYconglomerate: conglomerated, conglomerates, conglomerating, conglomeration+/conglomeration: conglomerations USAGE EXAMPLESBut the founding families still dominate almost all the conglomerates, in part, critics say, because of lax enforcement of corporate governance and tax laws. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) During parliamentary hearings into the corruption scandal, top executives at Samsung and other conglomerates admitted contributing to Ms. Choi’s foundations and companies. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Irving lobbied for the law, which paved the way for the conglomerate to mine in a northern Maine deposit. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v collect or gather Syn|Hypo|Hyper accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, pile up backlog accumulate and create a backlog accretegrow or become attached by accretion driftbe piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current increase become bigger or greater in amount 2adj composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass the conglomerate peoples of New England Syn combined made or joined or united into one 3n a composite rock made up of particles of varying size Syn|Hyper pudding stone rock, stone material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust 4n a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization Syn|Hypo|Hyper empire publishing conglomerate, publishing empire a conglomerate of publishing companies corp, corporation a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state |
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